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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Kota Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.4774S, 126.4257WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 129 km NW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia (80 miles) on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.4257 East, latitude 1.4774 North, depth = 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/11/19 / 2019-11-14 22:00:34 / November 14, 2019 @ 10:00 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 06:00:34 / 6:00 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us60006bqp. Unique identifier: us60006bqp.

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 eighteen, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 129 km NW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.4257° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.4774° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 129km NW 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 2019-11-14 22:00:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-14 22:19:35 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 385 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 1.173 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us60006bqp Id of event.
Event Code 60006bqp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006bqp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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