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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Laiwui in Indonesia


Earthquake location -0.7764S, 128.2642WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 91 km NE of Laiwui, Indonesia (57 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Laiwui in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 18:28:39 / 6:28 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 128.2642 East, latitude -0.7764 South, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/07/19 / 2019-07-14 09:28:39 / July 14, 2019 @ 9:28 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us70004jz9. Event ids that are associated: us70004jz9.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 91 km NE of Laiwui, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.2642° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.7764° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km NE of Laiwui, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-14 09:28:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-14 09:43:08 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 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 1.78 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us70004jz9 Id of event.
Event Code 70004jz9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004jz9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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