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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Besisora in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.9063S, 116.7892WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Besisora in Indonesia on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dbga. Id of event: us1000dbga. The epicenter was at a depth of 119.26 km (74 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 116.7892 East, latitude -8.9063 South, depth = 119.26 km. The temblor was reported at 00:10:44 / 12:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/03/18 / 2018-03-30 16:10:44 / March 30, 2018 @ 4:10 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sumbawa Besar, Mataram, Praya (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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 SW of Besisora, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.7892° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.9063° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 119.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SW of Besisora, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-30 16:10:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-30 16:40:16 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 2.643 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us1000dbga Id of event.
Event Code 1000dbga An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dbga, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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