A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Tegalbuleud in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 16/03/20 / 2020-03-16 03:56:41 / March 16, 2020 @ 3:56 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 72.78 km (45 miles). Exact location, longitude 106.7727° East, latitude -7.4774° South, depth = 72.78 km. The temblor was detected at 10:56:41 / 10:56 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us70008gx1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008gx1.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Soreang, Ciranjang-hilir, Caringin (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Sukabumi (c. 276 400 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Soreang (c. 150 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Caringin (c. 91 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Cicurug (c. 89 000 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Ciranjang-hilir (c. 77 800 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Pelabuhanratu (c. 43 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Banjar (c. 37 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km SSE of Tegalbuleud, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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