A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Amuntai in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10005dkk. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005dkk. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 20:35:36 / 8:35 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 06/04/16 / 2016-04-06 12:35:36 / April 6, 2016 @ 12:35 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 115.2528 East, latitude -2.2269 South, depth = 10 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barabai, Amuntai (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Barabai (c. 60 200 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Amuntai (c. 55 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. 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: 21 km N of Amuntai, Indonesia.
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