A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Ngalupolo in Indonesia. Exact location of event, longitude 121.7517 East, latitude -9.5031 South, depth = 3.24 km. The temblor was reported at 12:57:19 / 12:57 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000c2an. Unique identifier: us2000c2an. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.24 km (2 miles). Global time and date of event 09/12/17 / 2017-12-09 04:57:19 / December 9, 2017 @ 4:57 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Ende (c. 77 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ende.
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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.
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