A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Cikiruh Wetan in Indonesia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/01/18 / 2018-01-23 19:07:32 / January 23, 2018 @ 7:07 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000cefq. Unique identifier: us1000cefq. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 56.86 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 02:07:32 / 2:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 105.8619 East, latitude -7.2506 South, depth = 56.86 km.
Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pelabuhanratu (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Pelabuhanratu (c. 43 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 46 km S of Cikiruh Wetan, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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