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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag was detected near Amahai in Indonesia

Posted by admin on December 9, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -4.0513S, 129.5199WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) strikes 103 kilometers (64 miles) from Amahai in Indonesia on Wednesday. The temblor was detected at 23:57:00 / 11:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 129.5199 East, latitude -4.0513 South, depth = 35 km. Event id: us20004fw7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004fw7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/12/15 / 2015-12-09 14:57:00 / December 9, 2015 @ 2:57 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) from Amahai (c. 47 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Amahai (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days seventeen 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. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 103 km SE of Amahai, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.5199° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.0513° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 103km SE 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 2015-12-09 14:57:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-09 15:20:00 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 482 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 2.947 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 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 us20004fw7 Id of event.
Event Code 20004fw7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004fw7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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