A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Pemongkong in Indonesia. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:35:38 / 7:35 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us100085rd. Unique identifier: us100085rd. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 38.16 km (24 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/02/17 / 2017-02-19 11:35:38 / February 19, 2017 @ 11:35 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 116.603 East, latitude -9.1225 South, depth = 38.16 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mataram, Praya. Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. 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: 33 km SSE of Pemongkong, Indonesia.
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