A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Nggongi Satu in Indonesia. Unique identifier: us1000h68z. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000h68z. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 20:50:55 / 8:50 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/10/18 / 2018-10-03 12:50:55 / October 3, 2018 @ 12:50 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 120.1713 East, latitude -10.2958 South, depth = 10 km.
Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Waingapu (c. 48 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waingapu. Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 12 km SSW of Nggongi Satu, Indonesia.
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