A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Mapinkebak in Indonesia on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude 116.9462 East, latitude -8.5359 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Mapinkebak in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000geb4. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000geb4. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:09:25 / 9:09 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/08/18 / 2018-08-21 01:09:25 / August 21, 2018 @ 1:09 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mataram, Praya, Sumbawa Besar (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days eighty-five and in the last 365 days ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.
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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. 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: 1 km NNE of Mapinkebak, Indonesia.
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