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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Napu in Indonesia


Earthquake location -9.433S, 119.9513WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Napu in Indonesia. The temblor was picked up at 02:56:31 / 2:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/01/19 / 2019-01-09 18:56:31 / January 9, 2019 @ 6:56 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j23z. Id of event: us2000j23z. A tsunami warning has been issued near Napu in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 82.01 km, 119.9513° East, -9.433° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 82.01 km (51 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Labuhanbajo, Waingapu. Event epicenter was 104 km (65 miles) from Labuhanbajo (c. 188 700 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Waingapu (c. 48 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 4 km SE of Napu, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.9513° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.433° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 82.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SE of Napu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-09 18:56:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-09 19:12:06 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 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 385 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 2.393 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us2000j23z Id of event.
Event Code 2000j23z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j23z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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