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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 233 km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.8952S, 129.487WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 233 km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia (145 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/06/19 / 2019-06-03 06:26:30 / June 3, 2019 @ 6:26 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 188.45 km (117 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 129.487 East, latitude -6.8952 South, depth = 188.45 km. The temblor was detected at 15:26:30 / 3:26 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us70003ump. Unique identifier: us70003ump.

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 four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 233 km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.487° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.8952° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 188.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 233km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-03 06:26:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-03 06:51:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 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 416 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 2.096 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us70003ump Id of event.
Event Code 70003ump An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003ump, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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