A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 95 kilometers (59 miles) from Banda Aceh in Indonesia. The temblor was reported at 06:38:56 / 6:38 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us20002vwj. Unique identifier: us20002vwj. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.82 km (30 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 94.719 East, latitude 4.9457 North, depth = 47.82 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/07/15 / 2015-07-08 00:38:56 / July 8, 2015 @ 12:38 am.
Epicenter of the event was 95 km (59 miles) from Banda Aceh (c. 250 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Banda Aceh (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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