A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, Lombok region, Indonesia kilometers (0 miles) from Lombok region, Indonesia. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000gisb. Unique identifier: us1000gisb. The temblor was picked up at 21:49:55 / 9:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 116.6773° East, -8.2059° South, depth 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/08/18 / 2018-08-19 21:49:55 / August 19, 2018 @ 9:49 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Event epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sumbawa Besar, Mataram, Praya.
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-nine, in the last 10 days sixty-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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