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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 9 km WSW of Mataram, Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.6296S, 116.0411WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Mataram in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 05/08/18 / 2018-08-05 12:24:11 / August 5, 2018 @ 12:24 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000g5t5. Unique identifier: us1000g5t5. The temblor was reported at 20:24:11 / 8:24 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 116.0411 East, latitude -8.6296 South, depth = 35 km.

Epicenter of the event was 91 km (56 miles) from Denpasar (c. 405 900 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Ubud (c. 28 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Klungkung (c. 27 800 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Denpasar, Ubud, Klungkung (min 5000 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km WSW of Mataram, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.0411° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.6296° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km WSW of Mataram, 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 12:24:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-10 09:53:10 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 259 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 1.875 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us1000g5t5 Id of event.
Event Code 1000g5t5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g5t5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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