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USGS us20008uur

26 Mar 2017, 20:14

Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia

A magnitude 5.1 mb earthquake at 122 km depth.

Depth122 kmPublished hypocentral depth
Tsunami flagNot flaggedUSGS catalog flag, not a current warning
Updated16 June 2017Latest timestamp stored in this record

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-7.017000, 129.801600

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Catalog fields and provenance
Event ID
us20008uur
Coordinates
-7.017, 129.8016
Network
us
Significance
401