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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Kota Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.266S, 127.0098WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Kota Ternate in Indonesia. The temblor was picked up at 00:16:34 / 12:16 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 132.76 km (82 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kota Ternate in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/04/19 / 2019-04-08 16:16:34 / April 8, 2019 @ 4:16 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000kccp. Id of event: us2000kccp. Exact location of event, depth 132.76 km, 127.0098° East, 1.266° North.

Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop). Close 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 Sofifi, Ternate.

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 66 km NW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.0098° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.266° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 132.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km NW 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 2019-04-08 16:16:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-08 16:34:12 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 400 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 0.606 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us2000kccp Id of event.
Event Code 2000kccp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000kccp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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