A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Palu in Indonesia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/10/18 / 2018-10-01 17:39:01 / October 1, 2018 @ 5:39 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 119.8124° East, latitude -0.6825° South, depth = 10 km. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:39:01 / 1:39 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000h53t. Id of event: us1000h53t.
Earthquake epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Palu (c. 282 400 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palu.
In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days fourty-seven, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days fifty-eight 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 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: 24 km NNW of Palu, Indonesia.
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