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Moderate earthquake: M5.5 quake has struck near Mataram in Indonesia

Posted by admin on December 6, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -8.5376S, 116.0367WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Mataram in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 09:02:46 / 9:02 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Mataram in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000i36p. Id of event: us1000i36p. Global time and date of event 06/12/18 / 2018-12-06 01:02:46 / December 6, 2018 @ 1:02 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 116.0367 East, latitude -8.5376 South, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Munduk, Tabanan, Kuta (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 91 km (57 miles) from Denpasar (c. 405 900 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Tabanan (c. 33 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Kuta (c. 30 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Ubud (c. 28 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Klungkung (c. 27 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-one 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km WNW of Mataram, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.0367° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.5376° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km WNW of Mataram, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-06 01:02:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-06 01:14:48 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 465 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 1.865 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us1000i36p Id of event.
Event Code 1000i36p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000i36p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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