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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag was detected near Bayan in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.2992S, 116.3783WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Bayan in Indonesia. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/08/18 / 2018-08-06 18:21:20 / August 6, 2018 @ 6:21 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Bayan in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 116.3783° East, -8.2992° South, depth 35 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000g496. Unique identifier: us1000g496. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:21:20 / 2:21 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Klungkung, Karangasem, Praya. Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 43 km (27 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from Klungkung (c. 27 800 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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 WSW of Bayan, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.3783° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.2992° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km WSW of Bayan, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-06 18:21:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-06 18:56:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 26 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 458 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 2.209 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000g496 Id of event.
Event Code 1000g496 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g496, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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