A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Loloan in Indonesia on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 21:07:37 / 9:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/08/18 / 2018-08-05 13:07:37 / August 5, 2018 @ 1:07 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 116.452 East, latitude -8.234 South, depth = 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us1000g3v5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000g3v5.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Karangasem, Praya, Mataram. Event epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days twenty-six 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 2 km NNE of Loloan, Indonesia.
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