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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 3 km ESE of Todo, Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.385S, 116.2123WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Todo in Indonesia on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 04:37:10 / 4:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 116.2123° East, -8.385° South, depth 10 km. Id of earthquake: us1000g5u7. Event ids that are associated: us1000g5u7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/08/18 / 2018-08-05 20:37:10 / August 5, 2018 @ 8:37 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Klungkung, Karangasem, Praya (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 24 km (15 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Klungkung (c. 27 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-two, in the last 10 days ninety-three, in the past 30 days ninety-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 3 km ESE of Todo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.2123° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.385° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km ESE 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 2018-08-05 20:37:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-25 20:56:52 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 312 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 13.147 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 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 us1000g5u7 Id of event.
Event Code 1000g5u7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g5u7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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