Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Moderate World Earthquakes Magnitude 5–5.9

Moderate earthquake: M5.5 quake has struck near Masohi in Indonesia

Posted by admin on July 23, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -3.0352S, 130.2811WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 148 km ENE of Masohi, Indonesia (92 miles). Global time and date of event 23/07/25 / 2025-07-23 08:25:30 / July 23, 2025 @ 8:25 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:25:30 / 8:25 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14.901 km (9 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 130.2811° East, -3.0352° South, depth 14.901 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000qubl. Unique identifier: us6000qubl.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty-three 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. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

How would you describe the shaking?

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. 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: 148 km ENE of Masohi, Indonesia.

Copyright © 2025 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.2811° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.0352° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.901 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 148 km ENE of Masohi, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-07-23 08:25:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-23 08:45:39 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 465 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 97 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.524 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us6000qubl Id of event.
Event Code 6000qubl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qubl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information

Information and facts about all earthquakes today. Earthquake news and analysis on current events, Plate Tectonics, Seismometers, quake prediction, environment, Tsunamis, Seismologists, Prediction, live now, videos, information, pictures and much more. Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today.

© 2025 Earthquakes today - Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today