A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Pototano in Indonesia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.484 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 117.8199 East, latitude -8.3668 South, depth = 20.484 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/06/25 / 2025-06-17 14:21:11 / June 17, 2025 @ 2:21 pm. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:21:11 / 2:21 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000qktm. Unique identifier: us6000qktm.
Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sumbawa Besar (min 5000 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 37 km E of Pototano, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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