A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Loloan in Indonesia on Sunday. Exact location of event, longitude 116.4903 East, latitude -8.2316 South, depth = 35 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:42:19 / 10:42 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000g3vg. Event ids that are associated: us1000g3vg. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/08/18 / 2018-08-05 14:42:19 / August 5, 2018 @ 2:42 pm.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Praya, Mataram. Earthquake epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days twenty-seven 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 6 km ENE of Loloan, Indonesia.
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