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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Santong in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.3125S, 116.2375WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Santong in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 116.2375° East, -8.3125° South, depth 35 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/08/18 / 2018-08-05 20:41:30 / August 5, 2018 @ 8:41 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000g3xb. Unique identifier: us1000g3xb. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:41:30 / 4:41 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 33 km (20 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Klungkung (c. 27 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Klungkung, Karangasem, Praya (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 5 km W of Santong, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.2375° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.3125° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km W of Santong, 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 20:41:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-05 21:07:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.2 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 327 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 2.069 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us1000g3xb Id of event.
Event Code 1000g3xb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g3xb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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