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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.8743S, 127.4052WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia on Wednesday. The temblor was detected at 15:20:34 / 3:20 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000cshx. Unique identifier: us6000cshx. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 127.4052 East, latitude 1.8743 North, depth = 115.1 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/11/20 / 2020-11-25 15:20:34 / November 25, 2020 @ 3:20 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 115.1 km (72 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days one hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 69 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.4052° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.8743° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 115.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-25 15:20:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-25 15:38:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 1.095 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us6000cshx Id of event.
Event Code 6000cshx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000cshx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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