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Tuesday, Oct 13, 2026 10:22 | 16 hours ago | By: EarthquakeMonitor
An earthquake of magnitude 4.5 occurred on Tuesday afternoon, October 13th, 2026, at 5:48 pm local time near Tambolaka, Southwest Sumba Regency, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, according to the United States Geological Survey.
According to preliminary data, the quake occurred at a moderately shallow depth of 35. km. Its magnitude and other parameters may still change in the coming hours as the agency continues to process seismic data.
Our monitoring service identified a second report from the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), which listed the quake at magnitude 4.4. Other agencies reporting the same quake include Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency, which reported a magnitude of 4.4, and the citizen-seismograph network RaspberryShake, which also reported a magnitude of 4.4.
Weak shaking might have been felt in Tambolaka (pop. 35,800), located 72 km from the epicenter.
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