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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Akarakar in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.2366S, 116.3357WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Akarakar in Indonesia. Global time and date of event 06/08/18 / 2018-08-06 18:36:55 / August 6, 2018 @ 6:36 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 116.3357° East, -8.2366° South, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000g6cc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000g6cc. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:36:55 / 2:36 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 45 km (28 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Karangasem, Praya, Mataram (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-seven, in the last 10 days eighty-three, in the past 30 days eighty-three and in the last 365 days ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 1 km SSW of Akarakar, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.3357° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.2366° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km SSW of Akarakar, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-06 18:36:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-20 19:51:33 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 271 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 2.173 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us1000g6cc Id of event.
Event Code 1000g6cc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g6cc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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