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Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag was detected near Todo in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.3939S, 116.2078WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Todo in Indonesia on Thursday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Todo in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 13:25:31 / 1:25 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000g5n1. Id of event: us1000g5n1. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/08/18 / 2018-08-09 05:25:31 / August 9, 2018 @ 5:25 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 116.2078 East, latitude -8.3939 South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tabanan, Kuta, Denpasar. Epicenter of the event was 113 km (70 miles) from Denpasar (c. 405 900 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 120 km (75 miles) from Tabanan (c. 33 700 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop), 120 km (74 miles) from Kuta (c. 30 000 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Ubud (c. 28 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Klungkung (c. 27 800 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 twenty, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 3 km SE of Todo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.2078° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.3939° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SE of Todo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-09 05:25:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-09 05:46:55 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 536 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 2.035 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 14 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 us1000g5n1 Id of event.
Event Code 1000g5n1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g5n1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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