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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Abepura in Indonesia

Posted by admin on April 30, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -2.4084S, 138.7193WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 208 km W of Abepura, Indonesia (129 miles) on Friday. Global time and date of event 30/04/20 / 2020-04-30 21:23:22 / April 30, 2020 @ 9:23 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Abepura in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 63.64 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 138.7193 East, latitude -2.4084 South, depth = 63.64 km. Event id: us700097x8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700097x8. The temblor was detected at 06:23:22 / 6:23 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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: 208 km W of Abepura, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 138.7193° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.4084° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 208km W of Abepura, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-30 21:23:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-30 21:42:44 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 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 6.483 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us700097x8 Id of event.
Event Code 700097x8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700097x8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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