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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Tolotangga in Indonesia


Earthquake location -9.2737S, 118.3478WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Tolotangga in Indonesia on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/05/18 / 2018-05-28 19:25:26 / May 28, 2018 @ 7:25 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 118.3478 East, latitude -9.2737 South, depth = 50.14 km. The temblor was reported at 03:25:26 / 3:25 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Tolotangga in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50.14 km (31 miles). Unique identifier: us1000edim. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000edim.

Earthquake epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from Bima (c. 67 000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bima (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 64 km SSW of Tolotangga, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 118.3478° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.2737° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km SSW of Tolotangga, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-28 19:25:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-28 19:42:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 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 416 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 3.894 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000edim Id of event.
Event Code 1000edim An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000edim, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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