A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Loloan in Indonesia. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000gjgz. Id of event: us1000gjgz. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 116.4628° East, latitude -8.2426° South, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/08/18 / 2018-08-20 21:55:26 / August 20, 2018 @ 9:55 pm. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:55:26 / 5:55 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 54 km (33 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Praya, Mataram (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days fifty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 2 km ENE of Loloan, Indonesia.
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