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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Abepura in Indonesia


Earthquake location -1.8633S, 138.7956WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 216 km WNW of Abepura, Indonesia (134 miles). Id of earthquake: us1000hqal. Event ids that are associated: us1000hqal. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 32.45 km (20 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 138.7956 East, latitude -1.8633 South, depth = 32.45 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/11/18 / 2018-11-10 16:05:14 / November 10, 2018 @ 4:05 pm. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:05:14 / 1:05 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Abepura in 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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 216 km WNW of Abepura, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 138.7956° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.8633° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 216km WNW of Abepura, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-10 16:05:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-10 16:22:32 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 400 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 6.624 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us1000hqal Id of event.
Event Code 1000hqal An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hqal, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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