A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Nggongi in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 15:01:09 / 3:01 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000h5ih. Unique identifier: us1000h5ih. Exact location of earthquake, 120.3092° East, -10.4828° South, depth 35 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/10/18 / 2018-10-02 07:01:09 / October 2, 2018 @ 7:01 am.
Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Waingapu (c. 48 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waingapu (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 32 km SSE of Nggongi, Indonesia.
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