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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Saumlaki in Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.645S, 130.6181WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 163 km NNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia (101 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 85.93 km (53 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/02/20 / 2020-02-13 18:17:31 / February 13, 2020 @ 6:17 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 130.6181 East, latitude -6.645 South, depth = 85.93 km. The temblor was picked up at 03:17:31 / 3:17 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us70007pkg. Unique identifier: us70007pkg.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 163 km NNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.6181° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.645° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 85.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 163km NNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-13 18:17:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-13 18:36:01 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 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 416 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 1.49 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 71 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 us70007pkg Id of event.
Event Code 70007pkg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007pkg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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