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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Kota Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.3173S, 126.9085WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Kota Ternate in Indonesia. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 51.88 km (32 miles). Exact location of event, depth 51.88 km, 126.9085° East, 0.3173° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/04/20 / 2020-04-13 14:59:36 / April 13, 2020 @ 2:59 pm. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:59:36 / 10:59 pm (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: us70008vi8. Unique identifier: us70008vi8.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sofifi, Ternate (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (46 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

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 four and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 72 km SW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.9085° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.3173° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km SW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-13 14:59:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-13 15:17:02 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 0.643 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us70008vi8 Id of event.
Event Code 70008vi8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008vi8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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