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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Lokokrangan in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.1377S, 116.0969WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Lokokrangan in Indonesia. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004fu7. Id of event: us20004fu7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 09/12/15 / 2015-12-09 11:34:18 / December 9, 2015 @ 11:34 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 211.91 km (132 miles). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:34:18 / 7:34 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 116.0969 East, latitude -8.1377 South, depth = 211.91 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ubud, Klungkung, Praya (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Ubud (c. 28 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Klungkung (c. 27 800 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 22 km NW of Lokokrangan, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.0969° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.1377° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 211.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km NW of Lokokrangan, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-09 11:34:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-09 11:57:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 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 354 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 1.952 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us20004fu7 Id of event.
Event Code 20004fu7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004fu7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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