Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Prawira in Indonesia

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Prawira in Indonesia on Sunday. Unique identifier: us1000gdlk. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000gdlk. The temblor was reported at 04:12:58 / 4:12 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 116.0745 East, latitude -8.3334 South, depth = 24 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24 km (15 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/08/18 / 2018-08-18 20:12:58 / August 18, 2018 @ 8:12 pm.

Event epicenter was 28 km (18 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Klungkung (c. 27 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Klungkung, Karangasem, Praya. Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days seventy-eight and in the last 365 days eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km WNW of Prawira, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	116.0745° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-8.3334° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km WNW of Prawira, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-08-18 20:12:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-20 00:24:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	222	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	1.906	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.04 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	us1000gdlk	Id of event.
Event Code	1000gdlk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000gdlk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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