A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Palu in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 119.9529 East, latitude -0.219 South, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/09/18 / 2018-09-28 07:17:12 / September 28, 2018 @ 7:17 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 15:17:12 / 3:17 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000h726. Event ids that are associated: us1000h726. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palu (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Palu (c. 282 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-five, in the last 10 days fourty-seven, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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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: 74 km N of Palu, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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