Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Tual in Indonesia

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 271 km NW of Tual, Indonesia (168 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 8.54 km (5 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Tual in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 8.54 km, 131.354° East, -3.6455° South. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/04/18 / 2018-04-18 07:06:55 / April 18, 2018 @ 7:06 am. Id of earthquake: us2000e20s. Event ids that are associated: us2000e20s. The temblor was reported at 16:06:55 / 4:06 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 271 km NW of Tual, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	131.354° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-3.6455° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.54 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	271km NW 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	2018-04-18 07:06:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-18 07:28:34	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	432	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	1.148	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.82 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	40	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	us2000e20s	Id of event.
Event Code	2000e20s	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000e20s,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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