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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag was detected near Saumlaki in Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.0661S, 129.9186WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 259 km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia (161 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us70009dvh. Ids that are associated to the event: us70009dvh. The temblor was picked up at 10:06:18 / 10:06 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/05/20 / 2020-05-11 01:06:18 / May 11, 2020 @ 1:06 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 129.9186 East, latitude -6.0661 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 259 km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.9186° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.0661° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 259km NW 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 2020-05-11 01:06:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-11 01:25:21 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 4.144 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 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 482 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 2.345 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us70009dvh Id of event.
Event Code 70009dvh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009dvh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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