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Moderate earthquake: M5.8 quake has struck near Kota Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.4428S, 126.3843WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was reported 131 km NW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia (81 miles) on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 02:45:38 / 2:45 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/11/19 / 2019-11-14 18:45:38 / November 14, 2019 @ 6:45 pm. Exact location of event, depth 25.05 km, 126.3843° East, 1.4428° North. Unique identifier: us60006bmg. Ids that are associated to the event: us60006bmg. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.05 km (16 miles).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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 five, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 131 km NW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.3843° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.4428° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 131km 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 18:45:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-14 19:03:37 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 5.57 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 518 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 1.187 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 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 us60006bmg Id of event.
Event Code 60006bmg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006bmg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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