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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Jayapura in Indonesia


Earthquake location -2.0192S, 140.5986WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Jayapura in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has been issued near Jayapura in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:15:55 / 4:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.5986 East, latitude -2.0192 South, depth = 28.68 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/03/17 / 2017-03-13 07:15:55 / March 13, 2017 @ 7:15 am. Event id: us100088ly. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100088ly. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.68 km (18 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 59 km (36 miles) from Jayapura (c. 134 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Abepura (c. 62 200 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Vanimo (c. 9 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vanimo, Abepura, Jayapura (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 fifty-one 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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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 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: 57 km N of Jayapura, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.5986° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.0192° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km N of Jayapura, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-13 07:15:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-13 07:31:28 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 385 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 8.389 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us100088ly Id of event.
Event Code 100088ly An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100088ly, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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