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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 53 km W of Dobo, Indonesia


Earthquake location -5.7714S, 133.733WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Dobo in Indonesia. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 37.36 km (23 miles). The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:49:03 / 10:49 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Dobo in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 133.733° East, -5.7714° South, depth 37.36 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/01/17 / 2017-01-25 13:49:03 / January 25, 2017 @ 1:49 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007vc9. Id of event: us10007vc9.

Earthquake epicenter was 106 km (66 miles) from Tual (c. 39 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tual (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two 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. 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: 53 km W of Dobo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 133.733° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.7714° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km W of Dobo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-25 13:49:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-25 14:07:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 416 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 3.196 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us10007vc9 Id of event.
Event Code 10007vc9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007vc9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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