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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Abepura in Indonesia

Posted by admin on October 2, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -2.6655S, 138.8194WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 196 km W of Abepura, Indonesia (122 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 138.8194° East, -2.6655° South, depth 35 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Abepura in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70005pt7. Event ids that are associated: us70005pt7. The temblor was picked up at 23:24:31 / 11:24 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/10/19 / 2019-10-02 14:24:31 / October 2, 2019 @ 2:24 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 four and in the last 365 days one hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 196 km W of Abepura, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 138.8194° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.6655° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 196km W of Abepura, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-02 14:24:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-02 15:09:47 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 6.567 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70005pt7 Id of event.
Event Code 70005pt7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005pt7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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