A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Mamasa in Indonesia on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hvgu. Unique identifier: us1000hvgu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/11/18 / 2018-11-15 00:34:15 / November 15, 2018 @ 12:34 am. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:34:15 / 8:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 119.3407° East, latitude -2.9058° South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
The epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) from Polewali (c. 58 200 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Rantepao (c. 40 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Majene (c. 37 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Mamuju (c. 15 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Majene, Rantepao, Polewali. Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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: 5 km NW of Mamasa, Indonesia.
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