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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Nabire in Indonesia

Posted by admin on September 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -3.6274S, 135.5228WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Nabire in Indonesia. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 135.5228° East, -3.6274° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/09/25 / 2025-09-18 22:53:41 / September 18, 2025 @ 10:53 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:53:41 / 10:53 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000qx58. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qx58.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 30 km (19 miles) from Nabire (c. 43 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nabire. Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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: 29 km S of Nabire, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 135.5228° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.6274° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29 km S of Nabire, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-09-18 22:53:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-18 23:27:42 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 385 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 48 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.325 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 us7000qx58 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qx58 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qx58, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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