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Moderate earthquake: M5.9 quake has struck near Saumlaki in Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.5102S, 130.446WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 186 km NNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia (116 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:53:10 / 4:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 130.446° East, -6.5102° South, depth 48.47 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/09/19 / 2019-09-21 19:53:10 / September 21, 2019 @ 7:53 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 48.47 km (30 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60005lts. Id of event: us60005lts.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 186 km NNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.446° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.5102° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 186km NNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-21 19:53:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-21 20:11:25 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 3.852 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 536 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 1.689 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 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 us60005lts Id of event.
Event Code 60005lts An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60005lts, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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