A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Labuhankananga in Indonesia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/04/16 / 2016-04-09 08:20:12 / April 9, 2016 @ 8:20 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 117.825° East, -8.0648° South. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:20:12 / 4:20 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20005gjc. Event ids that are associated: us20005gjc.
Event epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sumbawa Besar (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km NE of Labuhankananga, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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