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Strong earthquake, 6.5 mag was detected near Kota Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.4S, 126.4WA earthquake with magnitude 6.5 (ml/mb) was reported 127 kilometers (79 miles) from Kota Ternate in Indonesia on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kota Ternate in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 126.4 East, latitude 1.4 North, depth = 68 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/06/16 / 2016-06-07 19:15:16 / June 7, 2016 @ 7:15 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: at00o8f1hg. Event ids that are associated: pt16159052, at00o8f1hg. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 68 km (42 miles). The 6.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:15:16 / 3:15 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ternate (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). The epicenter was 129 km (80 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 127 km WNW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.4° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.4° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 127km WNW 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 2016-06-07 19:15:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-07 19:24:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 1 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 650 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46.799996256 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00o8f1hg Id of event.
Event Code 00o8f1hg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt16159052,at00o8f1hg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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