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Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag has occurred near Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia

Posted by admin on August 27, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -7.133S, 129.4372WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia (0 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 27/08/24 / 2024-08-27 02:15:18 / August 27, 2024 @ 2:15 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nmzd. Id of event: us6000nmzd. Exact location of event, longitude 129.4372 East, latitude -7.133 South, depth = 79.852 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:15:18 / 2:15 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 79.852 km (50 miles).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every 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 four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.4372° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.133° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 79.852 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-27 02:15:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-27 02:33:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 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 72 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.635 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 us6000nmzd Id of event.
Event Code 6000nmzd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nmzd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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