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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Sambelia in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.392S, 116.7881WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Sambelia in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000gdd3. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000gdd3. The temblor was reported at 23:45:54 / 11:45 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 19/08/18 / 2018-08-19 15:45:54 / August 19, 2018 @ 3:45 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 116.7881 East, latitude -8.392 South, depth = 10 km.

Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mataram, Sumbawa Besar, Praya (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days seventy-two and in the last 365 days eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 11 km E of Sambelia, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.7881° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.392° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km E of Sambelia, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-19 15:45:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-19 17:07:55 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 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 354 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 2.609 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us1000gdd3 Id of event.
Event Code 1000gdd3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gdd3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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