A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Luwuk in Indonesia. Exact location, longitude 123.3209° East, latitude -0.6058° South, depth = 37.79 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:03:35 / 6:03 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.79 km (23 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/03/16 / 2016-03-19 22:03:35 / March 19, 2016 @ 10:03 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005b47. Unique identifier: us20005b47.
Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Luwuk. The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Luwuk (c. 47 800 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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: 70 km ENE of Luwuk, Indonesia.
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