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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Obelobel in Indonesia

Posted by admin on September 10, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -8.2095S, 116.5277WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Obelobel in Indonesia on Tuesday. Event id: us2000hc2z. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hc2z. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:22:24 / 4:22 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Obelobel in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 116.5277 East, latitude -8.2095 South, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/09/18 / 2018-09-10 20:22:24 / September 10, 2018 @ 8:22 pm UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 104 km (64 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Karangasem, Sumbawa Besar, Praya.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days sixty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 6 km NNW of Obelobel, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.5277° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.2095° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NNW of Obelobel, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-10 20:22:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-10 20:34:50 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 416 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 2.365 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us2000hc2z Id of event.
Event Code 2000hc2z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hc2z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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