A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 39 km SSW of Mbulung, Indonesia (24 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/10/18 / 2018-10-03 12:20:15 / October 3, 2018 @ 12:20 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000ha0l. Unique identifier: us1000ha0l. The temblor was detected at 20:20:15 / 8:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 120.4026° East, -10.5573° South. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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