A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Kasiguncu in Indonesia. Unique identifier: us70006qsf. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006qsf. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 120.1165° East, -1.5156° South, depth 10 km. The temblor was detected at 08:56:45 / 8:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/12/19 / 2019-12-25 00:56:45 / December 25, 2019 @ 12:56 am.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palu, Poso. Event epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Palu (c. 282 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Poso (c. 47 100 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifteen 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: 60 km W of Kasiguncu, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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