Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 248 km W of Abepura, Indonesia

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 248 km W of Abepura, Indonesia (154 miles). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:24:23 / 4:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 138.3488° East, latitude -2.7268° South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Abepura in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us70005xa4. Ids that are associated to the event: us70005xa4. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 22/10/19 / 2019-10-22 19:24:23 / October 22, 2019 @ 7:24 pm UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 248 km W of Abepura, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	138.3488° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-2.7268° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	248km 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	2019-10-22 19:24:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-10-22 19:41:23	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	400	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	6.095	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	34	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	us70005xa4	Id of event.
Event Code	70005xa4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70005xa4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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