A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Pototano in Indonesia. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/05/25 / 2025-05-02 17:31:48 / May 2, 2025 @ 5:31 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us7000pwpd. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pwpd. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 299.213 km (186 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 299.213 km, 117.2277° East, -7.7415° South. The temblor was picked up at 17:31:48 / 5:31 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sumbawa Besar (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (54 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 79 km NNW of Pototano, Indonesia.

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