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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Labuhanmapin in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.405S, 116.8545WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Labuhanmapin in Indonesia on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/08/18 / 2018-08-19 16:37:37 / August 19, 2018 @ 4:37 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 116.8545 East, latitude -8.405 South, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000gde5. Id of event: us1000gde5. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:37:37 / 12:37 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Labuhanmapin in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mataram, Praya, Sumbawa Besar (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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-one 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: 15 km NW of Labuhanmapin, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.8545° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.405° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km NW 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 16:37:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-19 16:57:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 432 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 2.674 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us1000gde5 Id of event.
Event Code 1000gde5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gde5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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