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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 63 km NE of Tobelo, Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.1344S, 128.4192WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/05/19 / 2019-05-29 22:13:44 / May 29, 2019 @ 10:13 pm. Unique identifier: us70003sy0. Ids that are associated to the event: us70003sy0. A tsunami warning has been issued near Tobelo in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 07:13:44 / 7:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 128.4192° East, latitude 2.1344° North, depth = 76.22 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 76.22 km (47 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). 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 Tobelo.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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: 63 km NE of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.4192° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.1344° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 76.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km NE of Tobelo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-29 22:13:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-29 22:31:19 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 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 1.714 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70003sy0 Id of event.
Event Code 70003sy0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003sy0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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