A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Sindangsari in Indonesia. Exact location of event, longitude 108.5158 East, latitude -8.1453 South, depth = 101.69 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 101.69 km (63 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 15:43:41 / 3:43 pm (local time epicenter). 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: 07/03/19 / 2019-03-07 08:43:41 / March 7, 2019 @ 8:43 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jbs5. Id of event: us1000jbs5.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tasikmalaya, Ciamis, Wangon (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 97 km (60 miles) from Tasikmalaya (c. 271 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Ciamis (c. 123 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Kawalu (c. 50 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Wangon (c. 35 500 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Sidareja (c. 30 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 37 km SSE of Sindangsari, Indonesia.
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