A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Lailunggi in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 120.1101 East, latitude -10.4057 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 23:53:26 / 11:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/10/18 / 2018-10-03 15:53:26 / October 3, 2018 @ 3:53 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000h6b5. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000h6b5.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waingapu. Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Waingapu (c. 48 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 25 km S of Lailunggi, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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