A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Belanting in Indonesia. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/10/18 / 2018-10-10 02:16:01 / October 10, 2018 @ 2:16 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 116.7698° East, latitude -8.1867° South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 10:16:01 / 10:16 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000h9sk. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000h9sk.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mataram, Praya, Sumbawa Besar (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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: 20 km NE of Belanting, Indonesia.
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