A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Nggilat in Indonesia. Exact location of event, longitude 120.2506 East, latitude -7.9177 South, depth = 211.14 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us600054m4. Unique identifier: us600054m4. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 211.14 km (131 miles). Global time and date of event 05/08/19 / 2019-08-05 14:14:47 / August 5, 2019 @ 2:14 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 22:14:47 / 10:14 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ruteng, Labuhanbajo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Labuhanbajo (c. 188 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Ruteng (c. 34 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 43 km N of Nggilat, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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