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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Karangsubagan in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.3589S, 116.0182WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Karangsubagan in Indonesia. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:03:26 / 8:03 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/08/18 / 2018-08-05 12:03:26 / August 5, 2018 @ 12:03 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 116.0182 East, latitude -8.3589 South, depth = 35 km. Id of earthquake: us1000g5tk. Event ids that are associated: us1000g5tk. A tsunami warning has been issued near Karangsubagan in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Singaraja, Munduk, Kuta (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 94 km (58 miles) from Denpasar (c. 405 900 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Singaraja (c. 133 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Tabanan (c. 33 700 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Kuta (c. 30 000 pop).

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

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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: 10 km WNW of Karangsubagan, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.0182° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.3589° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km WNW of Karangsubagan, 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 12:03:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-10 09:14:16 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 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 400 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 1.849 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us1000g5tk Id of event.
Event Code 1000g5tk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g5tk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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