A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Pagar Alam in Indonesia. Global time and date of event 18/11/20 / 2020-11-18 11:37:54 / November 18, 2020 @ 11:37 am UTC/GMT. 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 82.45 km (51 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 102.8371 East, latitude -4.7392 South, depth = 82.45 km. Id of earthquake: us6000cpsh. Event ids that are associated: us6000cpsh. The temblor was reported at 11:37:54 / 11:37 am (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Pageralam (c. 70 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pageralam (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 91 km SSW of Pagar Alam, Indonesia.
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