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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Sorong in Indonesia


Earthquake location -0.1388S, 130.5527WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 113 km NW of Sorong, Indonesia (70 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 130.5527 East, latitude -0.1388 South, depth = 10 km. Event id: us70005d1h. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005d1h. A tsunami warning has been issued near Sorong in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 06:14:26 / 6:14 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 06/09/19 / 2019-09-06 21:14:26 / September 6, 2019 @ 9:14 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 113 km NW of Sorong, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.5527° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.1388° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 113km NW of Sorong, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-06 21:14:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-06 21:32:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 1 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 400 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 3.24 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 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 us70005d1h Id of event.
Event Code 70005d1h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005d1h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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