A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Sinabang in Indonesia. Unique identifier: us100042wt. Ids that are associated to the event: us100042wt. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.14 km (18 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/12/15 / 2015-12-03 03:15:14 / December 3, 2015 @ 3:15 am. The temblor was picked up at 10:15:14 / 10:15 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 29.14 km, 95.6059° East, 2.6789° North.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sinabang. Epicenter of the earthquake was 89 km (55 miles) from Sinabang (c. 15 000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 88 km WNW of Sinabang, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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