A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Palu in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/09/18 / 2018-09-28 20:44:09 / September 28, 2018 @ 8:44 pm. Unique identifier: us1000h74m. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000h74m. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:44:09 / 4:44 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 119.8464° East, -0.2188° South, depth 10 km.
Epicenter of the event was 75 km (47 miles) from Palu (c. 282 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palu (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-two, in the last 10 days fourty-four, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 74 km N of Palu, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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