Moderate earthquake: M5.9 quake has struck near Amahai in Indonesia

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 196 km SSE of Amahai, Indonesia (122 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 129.7617° East, -4.9008° South, depth 174.42 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/09/20 / 2020-09-08 00:45:21 / September 8, 2020 @ 12:45 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 00:45:21 / 12:45 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000bjgb. Event ids that are associated: us7000bjgb. The epicenter was at a depth of 174.42 km (108 miles).

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. 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 twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 196 km SSE of Amahai, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	129.7617° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.9008° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	174.42 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	196 km SSE of Amahai, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-09-08 00:45:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-08 01:08:55	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.84	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	536	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	3.167	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	14	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	us7000bjgb	Id of event.
Event Code	7000bjgb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000bjgb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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