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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Papua region, Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.5878S, 132.8383WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, Papua region, Indonesia (0 miles). Exact location, longitude 132.8383° East, latitude 1.5878° North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/11/19 / 2019-11-24 22:05:13 / November 24, 2019 @ 10:05 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 07:05:13 / 7:05 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us70006cjh. Event ids that are associated: us70006cjh. A tsunami warning has been issued near Papua region, Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Papua region, Indonesia. This information 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 132.8383° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.5878° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Papua region, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-24 22:05:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-24 22:36:04 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 4.515 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us70006cjh Id of event.
Event Code 70006cjh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006cjh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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