A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Obelobel in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 04:55:04 / 4:55 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/09/18 / 2018-09-14 20:55:04 / September 14, 2018 @ 8:55 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hi8b. Id of event: us2000hi8b. Exact location, longitude 116.5163° East, latitude -8.2537° South, depth = 10 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mataram, Praya. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Event epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days seventy-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km WNW of Obelobel, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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