A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Malunda in Indonesia. Unique identifier: us2000je0t. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000je0t. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 118.6143° East, latitude -3.0618° South, depth = 30.97 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/02/19 / 2019-02-06 04:23:43 / February 6, 2019 @ 4:23 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 30.97 km (19 miles). The temblor was detected at 12:23:43 / 12:23 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Polewali, Majene, Mamuju. Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Polewali (c. 58 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Majene (c. 37 700 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Mamuju (c. 15 000 pop). 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. 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 thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 27 km WSW of Malunda, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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