A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Palu in Indonesia on Friday. Exact location, longitude 120.0587° East, latitude -1.2053° South, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us1000h7bb. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000h7bb. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/10/18 / 2018-10-04 22:08:34 / October 4, 2018 @ 10:08 pm. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:08:34 / 6:08 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Epicenter of the event was 41 km (25 miles) from Palu (c. 282 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Poso (c. 47 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Poso, Palu (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 one, in the last 10 days thirty-two, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 40 km SSE of Palu, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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