A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Sambelia in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 00:04:10 / 12:04 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000geqs. Unique identifier: us1000geqs. Exact location of event, longitude 116.727 East, latitude -8.3127 South, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/08/18 / 2018-08-21 16:04:10 / August 21, 2018 @ 4:04 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sumbawa Besar, Mataram, Praya. Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days eighty-seven and in the last 365 days ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 8 km NNE of Sambelia, Indonesia.
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