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Moderate earthquake: M5.7 quake has struck near Abepura in Indonesia


Earthquake location -2.6507S, 138.4056WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) was reported 242 km W of Abepura, Indonesia (150 miles) on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/06/19 / 2019-06-24 16:54:11 / June 24, 2019 @ 4:54 pm. Exact location of event, depth 19.08 km, 138.4056° East, -2.6507° South. A tsunami warning has been issued near Abepura in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us700049fa. Event ids that are associated: us700049fa. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 19.08 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 01:54:11 / 1:54 am (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-seven, in the last 10 days fourty-one, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 242 km W of Abepura, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 138.4056° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.6507° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 242km W of Abepura, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-24 16:54:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 19:16:05 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 6.091 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 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 500 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 2.3 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 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 us700049fa Id of event.
Event Code 700049fa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700049fa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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