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Moderate earthquake 5.8 mag, 9 km SSE of Labuhankananga, Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.2177S, 117.8157WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Labuhankananga in Indonesia on Monday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/07/16 / 2016-07-31 23:40:00 / July 31, 2016 @ 11:40 pm. The temblor was detected at 07:40:00 / 7:40 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Labuhankananga in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 117.8157° East, -8.2177° South. Unique identifier: us1000692a. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000692a.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bima, Sumbawa Besar. Event epicenter was 104 km (64 miles) from Bima (c. 67 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 9 km SSE of Labuhankananga, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 117.8157° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.2177° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SSE of Labuhankananga, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-31 23:40:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-31 23:59:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 6.55 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 1 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 518 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.634 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us1000692a Id of event.
Event Code 1000692a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000692a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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