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Strong earthquake, 6 mag has occurred near Abepura in Indonesia


Earthquake location -2.8535S, 139.3343WA earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 141 km W of Abepura, Indonesia (88 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Abepura in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.56 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us60007a3h. Unique identifier: us60007a3h. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/01/20 / 2020-01-18 16:38:13 / January 18, 2020 @ 4:38 pm UTC/GMT. The 6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:38:13 / 1:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 139.3343° East, latitude -2.8535° South, depth = 33.56 km.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 141 km W of Abepura, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.3343° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.8535° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 141km 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 2020-01-18 16:38:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-18 17:01:18 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 5.372 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 554 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 7.076 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 53 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 us60007a3h Id of event.
Event Code 60007a3h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007a3h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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