A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Labuhankananga in Indonesia. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:12:29 / 3:12 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/02/19 / 2019-02-28 07:12:29 / February 28, 2019 @ 7:12 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 117.8751 East, latitude -8.099 South, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000j8i6. Id of event: us1000j8i6.
Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sumbawa Besar.
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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 ENE of Labuhankananga, Indonesia.
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