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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 2 km SSE of Waworada, Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.6873S, 118.6969WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Waworada in Indonesia on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 118.6969 East, latitude -8.6873 South, depth = 113.54 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 113.54 km (71 miles). Event id: us1000e2ya. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000e2ya. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/05/18 / 2018-05-07 15:59:13 / May 7, 2018 @ 3:59 pm. The temblor was picked up at 23:59:13 / 11:59 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bima (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 25 km (16 miles) from Bima (c. 67 000 pop). 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 three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km SSE of Waworada, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 118.6969° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.6873° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 113.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km SSE of Waworada, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-07 15:59:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-14 20:21:02 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 259 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 3.501 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us1000e2ya Id of event.
Event Code 1000e2ya An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e2ya, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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