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Strong earthquake, 6.3 mag strikes near Bitung in Indonesia

Posted by admin on September 16, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 1.8523S, 126.38WA earthquake magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 140 km ENE of Bitung, Indonesia (87 miles). Exact location, longitude 126.38° East, latitude 1.8523° North, depth = 52.69 km. The 6.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:40:59 / 3:40 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/09/15 / 2015-09-16 07:40:59 / September 16, 2015 @ 7:40 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003jwc. Id of event: us20003jwc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.69 km (33 miles).

There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. 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 sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 140 km ENE of Bitung, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.38° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.8523° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 140km ENE of Bitung, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-16 07:40:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-16 08:05:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.21 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 611 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 4.613 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 20 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20003jwc Id of event.
Event Code 20003jwc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003jwc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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