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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag was detected near Leof in Indonesia

Posted by admin on March 3, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -9.7463S, 125.3111WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Leof in Indonesia. The temblor was reported at 16:36:32 / 4:36 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 03/03/16 / 2016-03-03 08:36:32 / March 3, 2016 @ 8:36 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us10004ua7. Event ids that are associated: us10004ua7. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.83 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.3111 East, latitude -9.7463 South, depth = 28.83 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kefamenanu, Same, Ainaro. Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Atambua (c. 35 800 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Kefamenanu (c. 29 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Same (c. 25 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Maliana (c. 22 000 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Suai (c. 21 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Ainaro (c. 12 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 77 km ESE of Leof, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.3111° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.7463° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km ESE of Leof, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-03 08:36:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-03 09:24:43 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 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 465 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 3.228 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us10004ua7 Id of event.
Event Code 10004ua7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004ua7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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