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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Dompu in Indonesia

Posted by admin on September 8, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -8.5288S, 118.3818WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Dompu in Indonesia on Thursday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 122.86 km (76 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/08/20 / 2020-08-20 18:07:45 / August 20, 2020 @ 6:07 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 118.3818° East, latitude -8.5288° South, depth = 122.86 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:07:45 / 6:07 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000bdm7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000bdm7.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bima. Epicenter of the earthquake was 39 km (24 miles) from Bima (c. 67 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 9 km W of Dompu, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 118.3818° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.5288° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 122.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km W 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 2020-08-20 18:07:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-27 21:02:02 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 3.747 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 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 mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000bdm7 Id of event.
Event Code 7000bdm7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bdm7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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