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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Labuhankananga in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.1559S, 117.8323WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Labuhankananga in Indonesia on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 10/08/16 / 2016-08-10 00:16:01 / August 10, 2016 @ 12:16 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 117.8323° East, -8.1559° South, depth 36.11 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 36.11 km (22 miles). The temblor was picked up at 08:16:01 / 8:16 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10006chl. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006chl.

Epicenter of the event was 59 km (37 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sumbawa Besar (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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: 6 km ESE of Labuhankananga, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 117.8323° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.1559° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km ESE of Labuhankananga, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-10 00:16:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-23 03:43:30 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 312 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 3.655 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us10006chl Id of event.
Event Code 10006chl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006chl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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