A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Bandar in Indonesia. The temblor was detected at 07:10:55 / 7:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 99.5106° East, 1.7647° North, depth 165.96 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/10/15 / 2015-10-17 00:10:55 / October 17, 2015 @ 12:10 am. Event id: us10003qwx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003qwx. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 165.96 km (103 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sibolga, Rantauprapat, Padangsidempuan. Event epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Rantauprapat (c. 103 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Padangsidempuan (c. 100 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Sibolga (c. 79 700 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Bandar (c. 31 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 41 km SW of Bandar, Indonesia.
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