A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Labuhanmapin in Indonesia. Global time and date of event 19/08/18 / 2018-08-19 20:39:39 / August 19, 2018 @ 8:39 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000giru. Id of event: us1000giru. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:39:39 / 4:39 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 116.8883° East, latitude -8.3545° South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
The epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mataram, Praya, Sumbawa Besar (min 5000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-two, in the last 10 days fourty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km NNW of Labuhanmapin, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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