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Moderate earthquake: M5.5 quake has struck near Sembalunbumbung in Indonesia

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Sembalunbumbung in Indonesia on Sunday. Event id: us1000gdb7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000gdb7. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/08/18 / 2018-08-19 15:28:58 / August 19, 2018 @ 3:28 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 116.574° East, -8.4159° South, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Sembalunbumbung in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:28:58 / 11:28 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Karangasem, Sumbawa Besar, Mataram. The epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days sixty-nine and in the last 365 days seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 4 km SE of Sembalunbumbung, Indonesia.

Indonesia Karangasem Mataram Praya Sembalunbumbung Sumbawa Besar

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	116.574° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-8.4159° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km SE of Sembalunbumbung, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-08-19 15:28:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-19 16:00:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	5.86	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	465	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	2.396	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.05 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	49	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	us1000gdb7	Id of event.
Event Code	1000gdb7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000gdb7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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