A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Komodo in Indonesia. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:15:05 / 9:15 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 154.17 km (96 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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: us70005agk. Unique identifier: us70005agk. Global time and date of event 31/08/19 / 2019-08-31 01:15:05 / August 31, 2019 @ 1:15 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 119.5499 East, latitude -8.6821 South, depth = 154.17 km.
Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bima, Labuhanbajo (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Labuhanbajo (c. 188 700 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Bima (c. 67 000 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 seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each 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. 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 SSE of Komodo, Indonesia.
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