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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 11 km WNW of Lokokrangan, Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.2297S, 116.1569WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Lokokrangan in Indonesia on Tuesday. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 116.1569° East, -8.2297° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000g6e4. Event ids that are associated: us1000g6e4. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:04:41 / 10:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/08/18 / 2018-08-07 14:04:41 / August 7, 2018 @ 2:04 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Klungkung (c. 27 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Klungkung, Karangasem, Praya. Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days fifty-two, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km WNW of Lokokrangan, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.1569° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.2297° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km WNW 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 2018-08-07 14:04:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-14 13:24:52 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 298 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 1.998 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us1000g6e4 Id of event.
Event Code 1000g6e4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g6e4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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