A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Congkar in Indonesia. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/11/16 / 2016-11-27 12:31:50 / November 27, 2016 @ 12:31 pm. The temblor was detected at 20:31:50 / 8:31 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10007f01. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007f01. The epicenter was at a depth of 194.12 km (121 miles). Exact location of event, depth 194.12 km, 120.2797° East, -8.0471° South.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ruteng, Labuhanbajo. Event epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Labuhanbajo (c. 188 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Ruteng (c. 34 600 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 29 km NNW of Congkar, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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