A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Palu in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 120.0127 East, latitude -0.3268 South, depth = 41.32 km. The temblor was detected at 13:14:31 / 1:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/03/18 / 2018-03-01 05:14:31 / March 1, 2018 @ 5:14 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41.32 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000d9jx. Unique identifier: us2000d9jx.
Epicenter of the event was 65 km (40 miles) from Palu (c. 282 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palu. Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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