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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Sukadana in Indonesia


Earthquake location -7.9343S, 115.6172WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Sukadana in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/10/19 / 2019-10-18 05:58:12 / October 18, 2019 @ 5:58 am. The temblor was picked up at 13:58:12 / 1:58 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 245.23 km (152 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005vaw. Id of event: us70005vaw. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 115.6172 East, latitude -7.9343 South, depth = 245.23 km.

The epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Denpasar (c. 405 900 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Singaraja (c. 133 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Banjar (c. 89 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Tabanan (c. 33 700 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Denpasar, Mataram, Tabanan (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 33 km NNE of Sukadana, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 115.6172° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.9343° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 245.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km NNE of Sukadana, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-18 05:58:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-18 06:42:49 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 284 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 1.544 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 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 us70005vaw Id of event.
Event Code 70005vaw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005vaw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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