A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Sangiang in Indonesia on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/11/15 / 2015-11-16 03:11:48 / November 16, 2015 @ 3:11 am. Exact location of earthquake, 118.9755° East, -7.7727° South, depth 10.32 km. The temblor was reported at 11:11:48 / 11:11 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.32 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10003ykj. Unique identifier: us10003ykj.
Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Bima (c. 67 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bima (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 58 km N of Sangiang, Indonesia.
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