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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Abepura in Indonesia


Earthquake location -2.4622S, 140.0246WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Abepura in Indonesia. Exact location of event, depth 40.6 km, 140.0246° East, -2.4622° South. A tsunami warning has been issued near Abepura in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20008kez. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008kez. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 40.6 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/02/17 / 2017-02-17 11:21:32 / February 17, 2017 @ 11:21 am. The temblor was reported at 20:21:32 / 8:21 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Jayapura (c. 134 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Abepura (c. 62 200 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jayapura, Abepura.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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.

Questions or comments?

Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 64 km WNW of Abepura, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.0246° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.4622° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km WNW of Abepura, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-17 11:21:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-17 11:46:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 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 433 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 7.78 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 us20008kez Id of event.
Event Code 20008kez An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008kez, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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