Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Tobelo in Indonesia

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 76.84 km (48 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 09:13:11 / 9:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 127.6126 East, latitude 2.3414 North, depth = 76.84 km. Event id: us70006xb3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006xb3. Global time and date of event 10/01/20 / 2020-01-10 00:13:11 / January 10, 2020 @ 12:13 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo. Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 80 km NNW of Tobelo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	127.6126° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	2.3414° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	76.84 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	80km NNW of Tobelo, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-10 00:13:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-10 00:32:44	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	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	416	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	1.578	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.85 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	105	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	us70006xb3	Id of event.
Event Code	70006xb3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006xb3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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