A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Palu in Indonesia. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000h73i. Id of event: us1000h73i. Exact location of earthquake, 120.1456° East, -0.7277° South, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 22:24:40 / 10:24 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/09/18 / 2018-09-28 14:24:40 / September 28, 2018 @ 2:24 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palu. Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 36 km (22 miles) from Palu (c. 282 400 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-five, in the last 10 days fourty-seven, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 35 km ENE of Palu, Indonesia.
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