Maluku Earthquake

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Moderate quake rocks seas northeast of Manado Indonesia (Monday, January 21, 2008).

I just found this news on some foreign internet sites, No Indonesian news reported this so far (as far as I know until this post made). It is sad but true when foreign people knows what happened inside our country while we don't

A moderate earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale jolted the seas northeast of Manado Indonesia at 4:31 a.m. Monday (2131 GMT, Sunday), the Hong Kong Observatory said in a news bulletin here Monday morning.

According to the Hong Kong Observatory, the epicenter was initially determined to be at 2.4 degrees north latitude and 127. 0 degrees east longitude, about 250 kilometers north-northeast of Manado Indonesia.

Earthquake Details

Magnitude	5.9
Date-Time	Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 20:26:06 UTC Monday, January 21, 2008 at 04:26:06 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location	2.362°N, 126.981°E
Depth	53.3 km (33.1 miles)
Region	MOLUCCA SEA
Distances	180 km (110 miles) NNW of Ternate, Moluccas, Indonesia 255 km (160 miles) ENE of Manado, Sulawesi, Indonesia 1500 km (940 miles) SSE of MANILA, Philippines 2430 km (1510 miles) ENE of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 11.2 km (7.0 miles); depth +/- 22.5 km (14.0 miles)
Parameters	Nst= 32, Nph= 32, Dmin=542.7 km, Rmss=1.24 sec, Gp= 79°, M-type=body magnitude (Mb), Version=7
Source	USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID	us2008mka2

• This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

Source : Indonesia News ; People Daily Online ; Topix ; United States Geological Survey