Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 197 km E of Baubau, Indonesia

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 197 km E of Baubau, Indonesia (122 miles). Global time and date of event 27/07/25 / 2025-07-27 02:45:26 / July 27, 2025 @ 2:45 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 124.3644° East, -5.7176° South, depth 619.93 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:45:26 / 2:45 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qves. Id of event: us6000qves. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 619.93 km (385 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 197 km E of Baubau, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	124.3644° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.7176° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	619.93 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	197 km E of Baubau, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-07-27 02:45:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-27 03:02:04	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	105	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.586	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	17	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	us6000qves	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qves	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qves,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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