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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag strikes near Tual in Indonesia

Posted by admin on January 18, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.3923S, 132.8868WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Tual in Indonesia. Unique identifier: usd0008ke6. Ids that are associated to the event: usd0008ke6. A tsunami warning has been issued near Tual in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.26 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 132.8868 East, latitude -6.3923 South, depth = 9.26 km. The temblor was reported at 02:48:37 / 2:48 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/01/18 / 2018-01-18 17:48:37 / January 18, 2018 @ 5:48 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Tual (c. 39 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tual. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 81 km S of Tual, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 132.8868° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.3923° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km S of Tual, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-18 17:48:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-18 18:10:04 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 3.75 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 465 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 2.231 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID usd0008ke6 Id of event.
Event Code d0008ke6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,usd0008ke6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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