A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Cempa in Indonesia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/08/19 / 2019-08-26 17:00:53 / August 26, 2019 @ 5:00 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 169.71 km (105 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us70005a9y. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005a9y. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:00:53 / 1:00 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 119.6251° East, latitude -8.0522° South, depth = 169.71 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Labuhanbajo. Epicenter of the event was 57 km (36 miles) from Labuhanbajo (c. 188 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 56 km NNW of Cempa, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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