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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Lokokrangan in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.2883S, 116.2643WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Lokokrangan in Indonesia. Global time and date of event 05/08/18 / 2018-08-05 16:49:45 / August 5, 2018 @ 4:49 pm UTC/GMT. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:49:45 / 12:49 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Lokokrangan in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000g3vu. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000g3vu. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 116.2643 East, latitude -8.2883 South, depth = 35 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Klungkung, Karangasem, Praya (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 37 km (23 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Klungkung (c. 27 800 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km S of Lokokrangan, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.2643° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.2883° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km S of Lokokrangan, 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 16:49:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-05 17:13:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 1 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 385 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 2.097 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us1000g3vu Id of event.
Event Code 1000g3vu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g3vu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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