A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Kasiguncu in Indonesia on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000h774. Unique identifier: us1000h774. The temblor was reported at 02:27:22 / 2:27 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/10/18 / 2018-10-04 18:27:22 / October 4, 2018 @ 6:27 pm. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 120.3148° East, -1.3154° South.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palu, Poso (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Palu (c. 282 400 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Poso (c. 47 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirty-eight, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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