A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Bombo in Indonesia. Unique identifier: us2000ailp. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000ailp. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 146.21 km (91 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 119.1391 East, latitude -8.6075 South, depth = 146.21 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:53:40 / 12:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/09/17 / 2017-09-09 04:53:40 / September 9, 2017 @ 4:53 am.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Labuhanbajo, Bima. Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (52 miles) from Labuhanbajo (c. 188 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Bima (c. 67 000 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 twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km E of Bombo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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