A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Akarakar in Indonesia on Sunday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ggd6. Id of event: us2000ggd6. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/07/18 / 2018-07-28 23:39:33 / July 28, 2018 @ 11:39 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 116.3593° East, latitude -8.1745° South, depth = 10 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:39:33 / 7:39 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Karangasem, Praya, Mataram. Epicenter of the earthquake was 53 km (33 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty, in the last 10 days sixty, in the past 30 days sixty-one and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 5 km NNE of Akarakar, Indonesia.
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