A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Belanting in Indonesia. The temblor was picked up at 03:17:43 / 3:17 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000g4v2. Unique identifier: us1000g4v2. 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 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 116.6616 East, latitude -8.3148 South, depth = 35 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/08/18 / 2018-08-02 19:17:43 / August 2, 2018 @ 7:17 pm.
Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 67 km (42 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sumbawa Besar, Mataram, Praya (min 5000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 3 km ESE of Belanting, Indonesia.
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