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Strong earthquake, 6.5 mag has occurred near Kairatu in Indonesia

Posted by admin on September 26, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -3.4261S, 128.3786WA earthquake magnitude 6.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Kairatu in Indonesia. The 6.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:46:46 / 8:46 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/09/19 / 2019-09-25 23:46:46 / September 25, 2019 @ 11:46 pm. Exact location of event, depth 29.89 km, 128.3786° East, -3.4261° South. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kairatu in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.89 km (19 miles). Event id: us70005lfd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005lfd.

The epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Ambon (c. 355 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Amahai (c. 47 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Amahai, Ambon (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km SSE of Kairatu, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.3786° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.4261° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SSE of Kairatu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-25 23:46:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-26 00:09:32 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 6.203 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 650 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 3.897 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 15 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 us70005lfd Id of event.
Event Code 70005lfd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005lfd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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