Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Strong World Earthquakes Magnitude 6–6.9, Tsunami warning alerts

Strong earthquake, 6.1 mag has occurred near Airbuaya in Indonesia


Earthquake location -2.765S, 126.6785WA earthquake magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 44 km NE of Airbuaya, Indonesia (27 miles). Exact location of event, depth 11.92 km, 126.6785° East, -2.765° South. The temblor was picked up at 21:34:54 / 9:34 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d855. Id of event: us2000d855. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.92 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 26/02/18 / 2018-02-26 13:34:54 / February 26, 2018 @ 1:34 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Airbuaya in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. There are an estimated 135 quakes in the world each year.

Did you feel it?

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. 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: 44 km NE of Airbuaya, Indonesia.

Copyright © 2018 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.6785° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.765° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km NE of Airbuaya, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-26 13:34:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-26 13:55:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 4.94 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 572 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 3.579 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 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 us2000d855 Id of event.
Event Code 2000d855 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d855, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply