Light mag. 4.6 earthquake - 29 km southeast of Bima, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, on Tuesday, 11 December 2018 at 08:04 (GMT)

Light mag. 4.6 earthquake - 29 km southeast of Bima, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, on Tuesday, 11 December 2018 at 08:04 (GMT)

Light magnitude 4.6 earthquake at 152 km depth

11 Dec 08:15 UTC: First to report: EMSC after 11 minutes.
Hypocenter depth recalculated from 134.0 to 149.0 km.
Hypocenter depth recalculated from 149.0 to 152.0 km.
Date & time: 11 Dec 2018 08:04:42 UTC
Magnitude: 4.6
Depth: 152.0 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 8.57°S / 118.97°E (West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia)
Nearest volcano: Sangeang Api (38 km / 24 mi)
Nearby towns and cities:
29 km (18 mi) ESE of Bima (pop: 67,000) --> See nearby quakes!
56 km (35 mi) E of Dompu (pop: 49,000) --> See nearby quakes!
57 km (36 mi) W of Komodo (East Nusa Tenggara) (pop: 2,000) --> See nearby quakes!
101 km (63 mi) W of Labuan Bajo (East Nusa Tenggara) (pop: 188,700) --> See nearby quakes!
164 km (102 mi) W of Ruteng (Kabupaten Manggarai, East Nusa Tenggara) (pop: 34,600) --> See nearby quakes!
171 km (106 mi) E of Sumbawa Besar (pop: 52,700) --> See nearby quakes!
187 km (116 mi) NW of Waingapu (East Nusa Tenggara) (pop: 48,800) --> See nearby quakes!
298 km (185 mi) W of Ende (East Nusa Tenggara) (pop: 77,200) --> See nearby quakes!
314 km (195 mi) E of Mataram (pop: 318,700) --> See nearby quakes!
384 km (239 mi) S of Makassar (South Sulawesi) (pop: 1,321,700) --> See nearby quakes!
Primary data source: EMSC (European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre)
Estimated released energy: 5 x 1011 joules (139 megawatt hours, equivalent to 120 tons of TNT) More info
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Data for the same earthquake reported by different agencies

Info: The more agencies report about the same quake and post similar data, the more confidence you can have in the data. It takes normally up to a few hours until earthquake parameters are calculated with near-optimum precision.
MagnitudeDepthLocationSource
4.6152 kmSUMBAWA REGION, INDONESIAEMSC
4.6149 kmSumbawa Region, IndonesiaGFZ
4.6141 km- 6km ENE of Rupe, IndonesiaUSGS

User reports for this quake (1)

User reports estimate the perceived ground shaking intensity according to the MMI (Modified Mercalli Intensity) scale.
Mataram (310.4 km W of epicenter) [Map] / not felt (reported through our app)
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