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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Sambelia in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.3969S, 116.6246WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Sambelia in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000g5tl. Event ids that are associated: us1000g5tl. Exact location of earthquake, 116.6246° East, -8.3969° South, depth 35 km. The temblor was picked up at 23:21:45 / 11:21 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/08/18 / 2018-08-05 15:21:45 / August 5, 2018 @ 3:21 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sumbawa Besar, Mataram, Praya (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Event epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-seven, in the last 10 days fourty-nine, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 7 km WSW of Sambelia, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.6246° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.3969° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km WSW of Sambelia, 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 15:21:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-13 15:52:48 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 259 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 2.447 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 101 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 us1000g5tl Id of event.
Event Code 1000g5tl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g5tl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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