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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Loloan in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.234S, 116.452WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Loloan in Indonesia on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 21:07:37 / 9:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/08/18 / 2018-08-05 13:07:37 / August 5, 2018 @ 1:07 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 116.452 East, latitude -8.234 South, depth = 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us1000g3v5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000g3v5.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Karangasem, Praya, Mataram. Event epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 2 km NNE of Loloan, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.452° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.234° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km NNE of Loloan, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-05 13:07:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-05 13:40:39 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 0 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 340 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 2.287 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us1000g3v5 Id of event.
Event Code 1000g3v5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g3v5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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