A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Kampungbajo in Indonesia. Global time and date of event 27/10/19 / 2019-10-27 16:24:12 / October 27, 2019 @ 4:24 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us700063hf. Ids that are associated to the event: us700063hf. The temblor was reported at 00:24:12 / 12:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 119.9885° East, latitude -8.0725° South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ruteng, Labuhanbajo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 48 km (30 miles) from Labuhanbajo (c. 188 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Ruteng (c. 34 600 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, 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 has struck near.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 34 km NNW of Kampungbajo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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