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Moderate earthquake: M5.6 quake has struck near Tobelo in Indonesia

Posted by admin on January 1, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 3.6642S, 128.6043WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was reported 224 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia (139 miles) on Sunday. Unique identifier: us10007p3f. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007p3f. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/01/17 / 2017-01-01 14:12:08 / January 1, 2017 @ 2:12 pm UTC/GMT. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:12:08 / 11:12 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.85 km (16 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Tobelo in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 128.6043° East, latitude 3.6642° North, depth = 25.85 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-seven 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. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 224 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.6043° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.6642° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 224km NNE 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 2017-01-01 14:12:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-01 14:38:09 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 3.25 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 1 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 3.127 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us10007p3f Id of event.
Event Code 10007p3f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007p3f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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