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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Lelongken in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.3213S, 116.4464WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Lelongken in Indonesia on Sunday. Exact location of event, depth 13.5 km, 116.4464° East, -8.3213° South. The temblor was reported at 09:50:32 / 9:50 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Lelongken in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13.5 km (8 miles). Event id: us2000gges. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000gges. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/07/18 / 2018-07-29 01:50:32 / July 29, 2018 @ 1:50 am.

The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sumbawa Besar, Karangasem, Praya. Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 5 km W of Lelongken, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.4464° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.3213° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km W of Lelongken, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-29 01:50:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-29 02:14:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 433 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 2.274 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us2000gges Id of event.
Event Code 2000gges An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000gges, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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