New Indonesia Earthquake
Sunday, November 16th, 2008Twitter beat news media by nearly an hour with report. First twit was from Indonesia, in fact.
Update:
Tsunami warning cancelled.
Indonesia Quake is opposite side of nation from 2004 quake. Celebes Sea. Danger to Borneo, Philippines, N coast of Indonesian islands
Indonesia quake: Remote locale, 3 am local time now, maybe be hours before we get news from area
Indonesia quake: Quake happened off N coast of Sulawesi, in Celebes Sea. Sea is basin surrounded by Sulawesi, Borneo and Philippines. Celebes Sea tsunami risk limited to those three areas.
Magnitude 7.5
Date-Time* Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 17:02:31 UTC
* Monday, November 17, 2008 at 01:02:31 AM at epicenterLocation 1.275°N, 122.103°E
Depth 21 km (13.0 miles) (poorly constrained)
Region MINAHASA, SULAWESI, INDONESIA
Distances 135 km (85 miles) NW of Gorontalo, Sulawesi, Indonesia
305 km (190 miles) W of Manado, Sulawesi, Indonesia
1485 km (920 miles) S of MANILA, Philippines
1890 km (1170 miles) ENE of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 7.8 km (4.8 miles); depth +/- 23.8 km (14.8 miles)
Parameters NST=114, Nph=114, Dmin=743 km, Rmss=1.24 sec, Gp= 65°,
M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=6

