A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Sambelia in Indonesia on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/08/18 / 2018-08-29 22:03:03 / August 29, 2018 @ 10:03 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 116.8577 East, latitude -8.2546 South, depth = 27.83 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 27.83 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:03:03 / 6:03 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000h9ie. Unique identifier: us2000h9ie.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mataram, Praya, Sumbawa Besar. Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (56 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 eleven, in the last 10 days thirty-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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