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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Kota Ternate in Indonesia

Posted by admin on July 18, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 0.279S, 126.3185WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 129 km WSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia (80 miles). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:17:51 / 1:17 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/07/19 / 2019-07-18 17:17:51 / July 18, 2019 @ 5:17 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70004na1. Id of event: us70004na1. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 30.56 km (19 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 126.3185 East, latitude 0.279 North, depth = 30.56 km.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 129 km WSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.3185° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.279° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 129km WSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-18 17:17:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-18 17:35:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 432 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.156 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 31 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70004na1 Id of event.
Event Code 70004na1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004na1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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