A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Bengga in Indonesia. The temblor was reported at 10:03:45 / 10:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.5495 East, latitude -9.6738 South, depth = 82.58 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 82.58 km (51 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 11/01/18 / 2018-01-11 02:03:45 / January 11, 2018 @ 2:03 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000ci1m. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000ci1m.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ende (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Ende (c. 77 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 88 km SSE of Bengga, Indonesia.
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