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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Maumere in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.8164S, 122.348WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Maumere in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.348 East, latitude -8.8164 South, depth = 122.84 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/12/20 / 2020-12-31 10:18:53 / December 31, 2020 @ 10:18 am. Event id: us6000d4iv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000d4iv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 10:18:53 / 10:18 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 122.84 km (76 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ende, Maumere (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Ende (c. 77 200 pop), 27 km (16 miles) from Maumere (c. 47 600 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every 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 two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 26 km SE of Maumere, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.348° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.8164° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 122.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26 km SE of Maumere, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-31 10:18:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-31 10:36:29 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 400 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 0.21 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 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 us6000d4iv Id of event.
Event Code 6000d4iv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d4iv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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