A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Loloan in Indonesia on Sunday. Global time and date of event 05/08/18 / 2018-08-05 15:26:53 / August 5, 2018 @ 3:26 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000g3vm. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000g3vm. The temblor was reported at 23:26:53 / 11:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 116.4696° East, latitude -8.2636° South, depth = 23.28 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 23.28 km (14 miles).
Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Praya, Mataram.
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 seven, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km ESE of Loloan, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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