A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Palu in Indonesia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/08/15 / 2015-08-15 12:33:00 / August 15, 2015 @ 12:33 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.96 km (22 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us20003fbc. Unique identifier: us20003fbc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 20:33:00 / 8:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 34.96 km, 120.1236° East, -1.0819° South.
Epicenter of the event was 35 km (22 miles) from Palu (c. 282 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Poso (c. 47 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Poso, Palu (min 5000 pop). Nearby 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 35 km SE of Palu, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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