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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Loloan in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.2636S, 116.4696WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Loloan in Indonesia on Sunday. Global time and date of event 05/08/18 / 2018-08-05 15:26:53 / August 5, 2018 @ 3:26 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000g3vm. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000g3vm. The temblor was reported at 23:26:53 / 11:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 116.4696° East, latitude -8.2636° South, depth = 23.28 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 23.28 km (14 miles).

Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Praya, Mataram.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km ESE of Loloan, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.4696° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.2636° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km ESE 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 15:26:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-05 16:19:16 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 284 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 2.302 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us1000g3vm Id of event.
Event Code 1000g3vm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g3vm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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