A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Sukadana in Indonesia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/03/16 / 2016-03-22 08:21:54 / March 22, 2016 @ 8:21 am. Unique identifier: us20005c9g. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005c9g. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:21:54 / 4:21 pm (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 229.38 km (143 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 115.6682 East, latitude -7.8707 South, depth = 229.38 km.
Event epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Singaraja (c. 133 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Banjar (c. 89 000 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Ubud (c. 28 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Klungkung (c. 27 800 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mataram, Seririt, Banjar (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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