A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Kasiguncu in Indonesia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/08/18 / 2018-08-25 12:58:07 / August 25, 2018 @ 12:58 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000gh8j. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000gh8j. The epicenter was at a depth of 38.17 km (24 miles). Exact location of event, depth 38.17 km, 120.6469° East, -1.3715° South. The temblor was picked up at 20:58:07 / 8:58 pm (local time epicenter).
Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Poso (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 12 km (7 miles) from Poso (c. 47 100 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km N of Kasiguncu, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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