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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Laiwui in Indonesia


Earthquake location -0.9569S, 128.6486WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 117 km ENE of Laiwui, Indonesia (73 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 128.6486° East, -0.9569° South. Global time and date of event 20/09/19 / 2019-09-20 20:59:15 / September 20, 2019 @ 8:59 pm UTC/GMT. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:59:15 / 5:59 am (local time epicenter). 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). Id of earthquake: us60005lk6. Event ids that are associated: us60005lk6.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-two 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 117 km ENE of Laiwui, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.6486° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.9569° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 117km ENE 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 2019-09-20 20:59:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-20 21:17:12 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 385 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 2.142 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us60005lk6 Id of event.
Event Code 60005lk6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60005lk6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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