A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Dompu in Indonesia. Exact location of event, longitude 118.2973 East, latitude -8.6615 South, depth = 135.321 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pijn. Unique identifier: us6000pijn. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 135.321 km (84 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:28:37 / 8:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/01/25 / 2025-01-08 08:28:37 / January 8, 2025 @ 8:28 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bima (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 52 km (32 miles) from Bima (c. 67 000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourteen 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.
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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. 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: 22 km SW of Dompu, Indonesia.
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