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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Karangsubagan in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.4483S, 116.0454WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Karangsubagan in Indonesia on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/09/18 / 2018-09-18 18:45:05 / September 18, 2018 @ 6:45 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000hhbv. Unique identifier: us2000hhbv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 02:45:05 / 2:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 116.0454 East, latitude -8.4483 South, depth = 10 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ubud, Klungkung, Karangasem (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 17 km (11 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Ubud (c. 28 400 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Klungkung (c. 27 800 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 7 km SW of Karangsubagan, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.0454° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.4483° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km SW of Karangsubagan, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-18 18:45:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-19 22:02:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 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 285 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 1.873 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us2000hhbv Id of event.
Event Code 2000hhbv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hhbv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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