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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Kota Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.1502S, 126.5168WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 102 kilometers (63 miles) from Kota Ternate in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.47 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000ixds. Event ids that are associated: us2000ixds. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/12/18 / 2018-12-25 07:18:22 / December 25, 2018 @ 7:18 am. The temblor was picked up at 15:18:22 / 3:18 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 126.5168° East, 1.1502° North, depth 24.47 km.

Event epicenter was 104 km (65 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ternate.

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

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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. 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: 102 km WNW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5168° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.1502° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 102km WNW 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 2018-12-25 07:18:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-25 07:34:47 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 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 0.929 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 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 us2000ixds Id of event.
Event Code 2000ixds An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ixds, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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