A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, Lombok region, Indonesia kilometers (0 miles) from Lombok region, Indonesia. Global time and date of event 20/08/18 / 2018-08-20 03:40:20 / August 20, 2018 @ 3:40 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 116.7621 East, latitude -8.3132 South, depth = 10 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:40:20 / 3:40 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us1000gjf0. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000gjf0. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mataram, Sumbawa Besar, Praya. Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-five, in the last 10 days fifty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-eight 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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