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Moderate earthquake: M5.6 quake has struck near Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia

Posted by admin on March 25, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -7.3092S, 128.5027WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia (0 miles). The temblor was detected at 17:58:11 / 5:58 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000d8u9. Id of event: us1000d8u9. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 128.5027 East, latitude -7.3092 South, depth = 149.36 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/03/18 / 2018-03-25 08:58:11 / March 25, 2018 @ 8:58 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 149.36 km (93 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.5027° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.3092° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 149.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-25 08:58:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-25 09:14:03 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 482 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 2.851 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 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 mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000d8u9 Id of event.
Event Code 1000d8u9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d8u9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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