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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Naisano Dua in Indonesia


Earthquake location -9.2624S, 123.6722WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Naisano Dua in Indonesia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 82.88 km (51 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 123.6722° East, -9.2624° South, depth 82.88 km. Event id: us700070am. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700070am. Global time and date of event 15/01/20 / 2020-01-15 16:22:13 / January 15, 2020 @ 4:22 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Naisano Dua in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:22:13 / 12:22 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 101 km (63 miles) from Kupang (c. 282 400 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Kefamenanu (c. 29 500 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Soe (c. 27 700 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Pante Makasar (c. 4 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kupang, Soe, Kefamenanu (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 38 km NNW of Naisano Dua, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.6722° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.2624° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 82.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km NNW of Naisano Dua, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-15 16:22:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-16 00:07:01 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 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 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 0.764 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us700070am Id of event.
Event Code 700070am An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700070am, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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