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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Mapinkebak in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.5359S, 116.9462WA 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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.9462° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.5359° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km NNE of Mapinkebak, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-21 01:09:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-21 01:25:18 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 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 400 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 2.764 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000geb4 Id of event.
Event Code 1000geb4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000geb4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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