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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Loloan in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.2426S, 116.4628WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Loloan in Indonesia. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000gjgz. Id of event: us1000gjgz. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 116.4628° East, latitude -8.2426° South, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/08/18 / 2018-08-20 21:55:26 / August 20, 2018 @ 9:55 pm. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:55:26 / 5:55 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 54 km (33 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Praya, Mataram (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days fifty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 2 km ENE of Loloan, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.4628° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.2426° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km ENE of Loloan, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-20 21:55:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-06 01:45:38 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 298 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 2.297 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 76 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 us1000gjgz Id of event.
Event Code 1000gjgz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gjgz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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