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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag strikes near Amahai in Indonesia


Earthquake location -2.8666S, 129.9255WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) strikes 123 km ENE of Amahai, Indonesia (76 miles) on Saturday. Unique identifier: us70007lf3. Ids that are associated to the event: us70007lf3. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:36:44 / 3:36 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Amahai in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/02/20 / 2020-02-08 06:36:44 / February 8, 2020 @ 6:36 am. Exact location of earthquake, 129.9255° East, -2.8666° South, depth 10 km.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, 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 have been detected in the same area.

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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: 123 km ENE of Amahai, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.9255° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.8666° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 123km ENE of Amahai, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-08 06:36:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-08 06:52:22 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 465 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 2.321 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us70007lf3 Id of event.
Event Code 70007lf3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007lf3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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