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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 36 km NNW of Dompu, Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.2348S, 118.3273WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Dompu in Indonesia on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 173.73 km (108 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/05/20 / 2020-05-20 20:46:47 / May 20, 2020 @ 8:46 pm. The temblor was detected at 20:46:47 / 8:46 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 118.3273° East, latitude -8.2348° South, depth = 173.73 km. Event id: us6000a0zl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000a0zl. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bima. Earthquake epicenter was 51 km (31 miles) from Bima (c. 67 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 36 km NNW of Dompu, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 118.3273° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.2348° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 173.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36 km NNW of Dompu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-20 20:46:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-29 15:21:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 259 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 3.498 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us6000a0zl Id of event.
Event Code 6000a0zl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a0zl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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