A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Dompu in Indonesia. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000difp. Unique identifier: us6000difp. Exact location of earthquake, 118.2897° East, -8.5819° South, depth 133.57 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 133.57 km (83 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/02/21 / 2021-02-17 17:42:04 / February 17, 2021 @ 5:42 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 17:42:04 / 5:42 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bima. Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Bima (c. 67 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
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. 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 eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km WSW of Dompu, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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