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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 13 km NNW of Labuhanmapin, Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.4028S, 116.896WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Labuhanmapin in Indonesia on Monday. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:23:23 / 2:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 116.896° East, -8.4028° South, depth 10 km. Event id: us1000gdf0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000gdf0. A tsunami warning has been issued near Labuhanmapin in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/08/18 / 2018-08-19 18:23:23 / August 19, 2018 @ 6:23 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mataram, Praya, Sumbawa Besar (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 88 km (55 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days seventy-three and in the last 365 days eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 13 km NNW of Labuhanmapin, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.896° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.4028° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km NNW of Labuhanmapin, 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 18:23:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-19 18:42:56 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 416 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 2.715 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us1000gdf0 Id of event.
Event Code 1000gdf0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gdf0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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