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Moderate earthquake 5.7 mag, 88 km WSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.511S, 126.6202WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) strikes 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Kota Ternate in Indonesia on Thursday. The epicenter was at a depth of 50.46 km (31 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 126.6202 East, latitude 0.511 North, depth = 50.46 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100033n1. Id of event: us100033n1. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/08/15 / 2015-08-20 11:00:10 / August 20, 2015 @ 11:00 am UTC/GMT. The 5.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:00:10 / 7:00 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sofifi, Ternate. The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 88 km WSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.6202° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.511° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km WSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-20 11:00:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-20 11:20:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 3.79 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 500 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 0.79 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 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 us100033n1 Id of event.
Event Code 100033n1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100033n1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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