A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Adipala in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 76.7 km (48 miles). The temblor was picked up at 23:21:23 / 11:21 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 109.2811° East, latitude -8.2484° South, depth = 76.7 km. Event id: us10006e5d. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006e5d. Global time and date of event 16/08/16 / 2016-08-16 16:21:23 / August 16, 2016 @ 4:21 pm UTC/GMT.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Purbalingga, Purwokerto, Kutoarjo. Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Purwokerto (c. 217 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Sokaraja (c. 66 500 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Purbalingga (c. 56 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Banyumas (c. 48 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Wangon (c. 35 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Gombong (c. 32 000 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Kutoarjo (c. 31 400 pop).
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. 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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