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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag has occurred near Kota Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.749S, 126.1874WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 131 km W of Kota Ternate, Indonesia (81 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/02/19 / 2019-02-20 00:10:39 / February 20, 2019 @ 12:10 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jkcy. Id of event: us2000jkcy. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:10:39 / 8:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 126.1874° East, 0.749° North, depth 36.43 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 36.43 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventy-one 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 131 km W of Kota Ternate, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.1874° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.749° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 131km W 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 2019-02-20 00:10:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-20 00:30:45 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 4.17 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 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 482 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 1.179 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us2000jkcy Id of event.
Event Code 2000jkcy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jkcy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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