A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Palu in Indonesia on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 17:23:45 / 5:23 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 06/10/17 / 2017-10-06 09:23:45 / October 6, 2017 @ 9:23 am UTC/GMT. 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 44.07 km (27 miles). Unique identifier: us2000b1xd. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000b1xd. Exact location of event, depth 44.07 km, 119.9639° East, -0.4925° South.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palu. Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) from Palu (c. 282 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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