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Moderate earthquake 5.5 mag, 82 km NNW of Ternate, Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.5075S, 127.1574WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Ternate in Indonesia. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hqj1. Unique identifier: us1000hqj1. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/11/18 / 2018-11-11 07:13:38 / November 11, 2018 @ 7:13 am. Exact location of event, longitude 127.1574 East, latitude 1.5075 North, depth = 123.61 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 123.61 km (77 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Ternate in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:13:38 / 3:13 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo, Sofifi, Ternate (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 82 km NNW of Ternate, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.1574° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.5075° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 123.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km NNW of 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 2018-11-11 07:13:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-11 07:34:32 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 3.73 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 465 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 0.76 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us1000hqj1 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hqj1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hqj1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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