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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Pemenang in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.3958S, 116.1287WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Pemenang in Indonesia. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/08/18 / 2018-08-05 13:12:16 / August 5, 2018 @ 1:12 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 116.1287° East, -8.3958° South, depth 35 km. The temblor was picked up at 21:12:16 / 9:12 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000g3v7. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000g3v7. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ubud, Klungkung, Karangasem. Event epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Ubud (c. 28 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Klungkung (c. 27 800 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 five, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km ENE of Pemenang, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.1287° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.3958° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km ENE of Pemenang, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-05 13:12:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-05 13:52:44 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 369 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 1.956 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us1000g3v7 Id of event.
Event Code 1000g3v7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g3v7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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