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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Karangsubagan in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.3596S, 115.9747WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Karangsubagan in Indonesia on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us2000h9ik. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000h9ik. Exact location, longitude 115.9747° East, latitude -8.3596° South, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/08/18 / 2018-08-29 23:10:31 / August 29, 2018 @ 11:10 pm. The temblor was reported at 07:10:31 / 7:10 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 89 km (56 miles) from Denpasar (c. 405 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Ubud (c. 28 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Klungkung (c. 27 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Denpasar, Ubud, Klungkung.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 14 km WNW of Karangsubagan, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 115.9747° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.3596° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km WNW 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 2018-08-29 23:10:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-26 03:47:14 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 1 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 1.806 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us2000h9ik Id of event.
Event Code 2000h9ik An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000h9ik, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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