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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Utan in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.3268S, 117.0169WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Utan in Indonesia on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 14:43:09 / 2:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 117.0169 East, latitude -8.3268 South, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/09/18 / 2018-09-06 06:43:09 / September 6, 2018 @ 6:43 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Utan in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000h965. Event ids that are associated: us2000h965. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mataram, Praya, Sumbawa Besar (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days sixty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

Questions or comments?

How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 15 km NW of Utan, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 117.0169° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.3268° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km NW of Utan, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-06 06:43:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-06 07:08:16 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 3.8 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 385 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 2.838 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us2000h965 Id of event.
Event Code 2000h965 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000h965, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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