A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Palu in Indonesia. The temblor was detected at 23:35:42 / 11:35 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Palu in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 119.7498° East, -1.2892° South. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000h3v4. Unique identifier: us1000h3v4. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 28/09/18 / 2018-09-28 15:35:42 / September 28, 2018 @ 3:35 pm UTC/GMT.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palu. Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Palu (c. 282 400 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 45 km SSW of Palu, Indonesia.
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