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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Manokwari in Indonesia


Earthquake location -1.6081S, 134.0593WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Manokwari in Indonesia. Exact location of event, longitude 134.0593 East, latitude -1.6081 South, depth = 35.89 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 35.89 km (22 miles). Unique identifier: us60007mm4. Ids that are associated to the event: us60007mm4. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/02/20 / 2020-02-02 07:19:13 / February 2, 2020 @ 7:19 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Manokwari in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:19:13 / 4:19 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Manokwari (c. 53 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manokwari (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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 one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 82 km S of Manokwari, Indonesia. This information 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 134.0593° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.6081° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km S of Manokwari, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-02 07:19:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-02 07:37:02 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 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 2.229 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us60007mm4 Id of event.
Event Code 60007mm4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007mm4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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