A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Pendolo in Indonesia. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/10/18 / 2018-10-20 05:21:20 / October 20, 2018 @ 5:21 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 120.5287° East, latitude -1.8241° South, depth = 66.82 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 66.82 km (42 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hgxp. Id of event: us1000hgxp. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:21:20 / 1:21 pm (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Poso. Earthquake epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) from Poso (c. 47 100 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 32 km NNW of Pendolo, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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