Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Karangsubagan in Indonesia

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Karangsubagan in Indonesia. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000h62q. Id of event: us2000h62q. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/08/18 / 2018-08-23 18:08:38 / August 23, 2018 @ 6:08 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 116.0596° East, -8.3783° South. The temblor was detected at 02:08:38 / 2:08 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ubud, Klungkung, Karangasem. Epicenter of the earthquake was 24 km (15 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Ubud (c. 28 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Klungkung (c. 27 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days sixty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 5 km NW of Karangsubagan, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	116.0596° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-8.3783° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km NW of Karangsubagan, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-08-23 18:08:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-09-12 20:03:25	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	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	271	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	1.889	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	80	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	us2000h62q	Id of event.
Event Code	2000h62q	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000h62q,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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