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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Bualu in Indonesia


Earthquake location -9.0886S, 115.3845WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Bualu in Indonesia. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/11/18 / 2018-11-14 17:23:31 / November 14, 2018 @ 5:23 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 63.22 km (39 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hrpc. Id of event: us1000hrpc. A tsunami warning has been issued near Bualu in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 115.3845° East, -9.0886° South, depth 63.22 km. The temblor was detected at 01:23:31 / 1:23 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mataram, Munduk, Karangasem (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Denpasar (c. 405 900 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Tabanan (c. 33 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Kuta (c. 30 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Ubud (c. 28 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Klungkung (c. 27 800 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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 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: 37 km SSE of Bualu, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 115.3845° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.0886° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km SSE of Bualu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-14 17:23:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-14 17:39:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 1.364 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us1000hrpc Id of event.
Event Code 1000hrpc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hrpc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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