A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Palu in Indonesia. Unique identifier: us1000h741. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000h741. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/09/18 / 2018-09-28 17:02:07 / September 28, 2018 @ 5:02 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:02:07 / 1:02 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 119.7762 East, latitude -0.7171 South, depth = 10 km.
Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Palu (c. 282 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palu (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-one, in the last 10 days sixty-three, in the past 30 days sixty-three and in the last 365 days seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km NNW of Palu, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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