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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Bitung in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.6424S, 126.358WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 132 km E of Bitung, Indonesia (82 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/11/19 / 2019-11-14 17:11:36 / November 14, 2019 @ 5:11 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us60006bl0. Unique identifier: us60006bl0. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:11:36 / 1:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 126.358 East, latitude 1.6424 North, depth = 35 km.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 132 km E of Bitung, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.358° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.6424° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 132km E of Bitung, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-14 17:11:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-14 19:16:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 0 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 1.328 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 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 mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60006bl0 Id of event.
Event Code 60006bl0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006bl0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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