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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Rupe in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.6808S, 118.8956WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Rupe in Indonesia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/12/18 / 2018-12-11 08:04:42 / December 11, 2018 @ 8:04 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 140.46 km (87 miles). Exact location, longitude 118.8956° East, latitude -8.6808° South, depth = 140.46 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:04:42 / 4:04 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000isfz. Unique identifier: us2000isfz. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 31 km (19 miles) from Bima (c. 67 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bima. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 6 km ENE of Rupe, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 118.8956° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.6808° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 140.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km ENE of Rupe, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-11 08:04:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-11 08:22:07 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 326 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 3.304 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us2000isfz Id of event.
Event Code 2000isfz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000isfz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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