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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Tondano in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.3359S, 125.4882WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 124 km SSE of Tondano, Indonesia (77 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:45:38 / 1:45 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us70008zgj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008zgj. Global time and date of event 18/04/20 / 2020-04-18 17:45:38 / April 18, 2020 @ 5:45 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 125.4882° East, 0.3359° North, depth 70.58 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 70.58 km (44 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 124 km SSE of Tondano, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.4882° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.3359° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 124km SSE of Tondano, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-18 17:45:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-18 18:01:56 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 1.927 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 31 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 us70008zgj Id of event.
Event Code 70008zgj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008zgj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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