A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Belanting in Indonesia. The temblor was picked up at 03:07:20 / 3:07 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000g24v. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000g24v. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 116.6269 East, latitude -8.2569 South, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/08/18 / 2018-08-02 19:07:20 / August 2, 2018 @ 7:07 pm.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sumbawa Besar, Mataram, Praya. Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 67 km (42 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km N of Belanting, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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