A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Rantepang in Indonesia. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 119.9419° East, -2.7722° South. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/09/18 / 2018-09-28 16:21:36 / September 28, 2018 @ 4:21 pm. The temblor was reported at 00:21:36 / 12:21 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000h73x. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000h73x.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palopo, Rantepao. Epicenter of the event was 37 km (23 miles) from Palopo (c. 129 300 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Rantepao (c. 40 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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