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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag has occurred near Kota Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.5427S, 126.1604WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 136 km WSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia (85 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 28.96 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/06/18 / 2018-06-27 06:44:24 / June 27, 2018 @ 6:44 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000f363. Unique identifier: us1000f363. Exact location of event, depth 28.96 km, 126.1604° East, 0.5427° North. The temblor was detected at 14:44:24 / 2:44 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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. 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: 136 km WSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.1604° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.5427° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 136km WSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-27 06:44:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-27 07:01:13 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 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 0 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 449 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 1.227 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 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 us1000f363 Id of event.
Event Code 1000f363 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000f363, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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