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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Saumlaki in Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.2685S, 130.7435WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 196 km NNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia (122 miles). Unique identifier: us20002wut. Ids that are associated to the event: us20002wut. Exact location of earthquake, 130.7435° East, -6.2685° South, depth 102.44 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 102.44 km (64 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/07/15 / 2015-07-11 22:48:34 / July 11, 2015 @ 10:48 pm. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:48:34 / 7:48 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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: 196 km NNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.7435° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.2685° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 102.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 196km NNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-11 22:48:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-11 23:06:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 1.789 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us20002wut Id of event.
Event Code 20002wut An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002wut, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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