A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Lubuklinggau in Indonesia. The epicenter was at a depth of 225.65 km (140 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 102.6955 East, latitude -2.9353 South, depth = 225.65 km. Global time and date of event 27/01/17 / 2017-01-27 22:23:56 / January 27, 2017 @ 10:23 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us20008iw8. Unique identifier: us20008iw8. The temblor was picked up at 05:23:56 / 5:23 am (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 44 km (27 miles) from Lubuklinggau (c. 148 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Curup (c. 46 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Curup, Lubuklinggau. Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 44 km NNW of Lubuklinggau, Indonesia.
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