A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Belanting in Indonesia. Id of earthquake: us1000hnvh. Event ids that are associated: us1000hnvh. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:36:11 / 2:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/11/18 / 2018-11-07 18:36:11 / November 7, 2018 @ 6:36 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 116.7826 East, latitude -8.1533 South, depth = 10 km.
Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mataram, Praya, Sumbawa Besar.
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 23 km NE of Belanting, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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