A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Poso in Indonesia. 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 location of event, depth 10 km, 120.8946° East, -1.0388° South. Event id: us1000hajy. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hajy. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:30:16 / 2:30 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/10/18 / 2018-10-04 18:30:16 / October 4, 2018 @ 6:30 pm.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Poso (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 43 km (27 miles) from Poso (c. 47 100 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days thirty-three, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 42 km NNE of Poso, Indonesia.
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