A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Palu in Indonesia. The temblor was picked up at 23:47:50 / 11:47 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 44.02 km (27 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us100031eh. Unique identifier: us100031eh. Exact location, longitude 119.8447° East, latitude -0.7317° South, depth = 44.02 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/07/15 / 2015-07-23 15:47:50 / July 23, 2015 @ 3:47 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Epicenter of the event was 18 km (11 miles) from Palu (c. 282 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palu (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 17 km N of Palu, Indonesia.
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