A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Wotu in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 120.8938 East, latitude -2.9389 South, depth = 25.92 km. Global time and date of event 15/08/15 / 2015-08-15 09:21:33 / August 15, 2015 @ 9:21 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.92 km (16 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us20003fbb. Unique identifier: us20003fbb. The temblor was reported at 17:21:33 / 5:21 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palopo (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Palopo (c. 129 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 39 km SSE of Wotu, Indonesia.
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