A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Kefamenanu in Indonesia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/10/18 / 2018-10-01 14:11:46 / October 1, 2018 @ 2:11 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 124.0809 East, latitude -9.165 South, depth = 94.15 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:11:46 / 10:11 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000h4zj. Unique identifier: us1000h4zj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 94.15 km (59 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Atambua, Soe, Kefamenanu. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop). Event epicenter was 89 km (56 miles) from Atambua (c. 35 800 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Kefamenanu (c. 29 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Soe (c. 27 700 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Pante Makasar (c. 4 700 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. 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: 53 km NW of Kefamenanu, Indonesia.
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