A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Sembalunbumbung in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has been issued near Sembalunbumbung in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 116.5998° East, latitude -8.4009° South, depth = 10 km. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:06:13 / 12:06 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/08/18 / 2018-08-19 04:06:13 / August 19, 2018 @ 4:06 am. Id of earthquake: us1000gcvp. Event ids that are associated: us1000gcvp. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Karangasem, Sumbawa Besar, Mataram (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 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 two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days sixty-four and in the last 365 days seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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 ESE of Sembalunbumbung, Indonesia.
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