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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.336S, 126.5015WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 115 km WNW of Ternate, Indonesia (71 miles) on Monday. Unique identifier: us7000qcih. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qcih. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:39:11 / 5:39 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.5015 East, latitude 1.336 North, depth = 47.085 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/07/25 / 2025-07-14 05:39:11 / July 14, 2025 @ 5:39 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 47.085 km (29 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 115 km WNW of Ternate, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5015° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.336° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.085 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 115 km WNW of 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 2025-07-14 05:39:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-14 06:01:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 416 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 81 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.031 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us7000qcih Id of event.
Event Code 7000qcih An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qcih, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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