A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Lokokrangan in Indonesia. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004fu7. Id of event: us20004fu7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 09/12/15 / 2015-12-09 11:34:18 / December 9, 2015 @ 11:34 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 211.91 km (132 miles). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:34:18 / 7:34 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 116.0969 East, latitude -8.1377 South, depth = 211.91 km.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ubud, Klungkung, Praya (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Ubud (c. 28 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Klungkung (c. 27 800 pop).
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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 22 km NW of Lokokrangan, Indonesia.
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