A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Tagolu in Indonesia on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: us60009enr. Unique identifier: us60009enr. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/04/20 / 2020-04-23 01:55:34 / April 23, 2020 @ 1:55 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 121.3217° East, latitude -1.2197° South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 09:55:34 / 9:55 am (local time epicenter).
Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Poso (c. 47 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Poso (min 5000 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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: 65 km ENE of Tagolu, Indonesia.
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