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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag was detected near Enarotali in Indonesia


Earthquake location -4.6065S, 137.9651WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 194 km ESE of Enarotali, Indonesia (121 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/06/16 / 2016-06-14 22:09:26 / June 14, 2016 @ 10:09 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us200064fb. Unique identifier: us200064fb. Exact location, longitude 137.9651° East, latitude -4.6065° South, depth = 10 km. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:09:26 / 7:09 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Enarotali in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 194 km ESE of Enarotali, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 137.9651° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.6065° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 194km ESE of Enarotali, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-14 22:09:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-14 22:28:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 6.72 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 483 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 5.945 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 us200064fb Id of event.
Event Code 200064fb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200064fb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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