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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Laiwui in Indonesia


Earthquake location -0.9001S, 127.3107WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 63 km NW of Laiwui, Indonesia (39 miles). Unique identifier: us2000jjfv. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000jjfv. A tsunami warning has been issued near Laiwui in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 32.34 km, 127.3107° East, -0.9001° South. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/02/19 / 2019-02-18 04:15:51 / February 18, 2019 @ 4:15 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.34 km (20 miles). The temblor was detected at 13:15:51 / 1:15 pm (local time epicenter).

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 one and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. 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: 63 km NW of Laiwui, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.3107° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.9001° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km NW of Laiwui, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-18 04:15:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-18 04:34:11 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 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 1.661 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 us2000jjfv Id of event.
Event Code 2000jjfv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jjfv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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