A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Kasiguncu in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, 120.5781° East, -1.1493° South, depth 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000h79w. Unique identifier: us1000h79w. The temblor was picked up at 04:40:31 / 4:40 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/10/18 / 2018-10-04 20:40:31 / October 4, 2018 @ 8:40 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Palu (c. 282 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Poso (c. 47 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palu, Poso. Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days fourty, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 31 km NNW of Kasiguncu, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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