A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Banda Aceh in Indonesia on Sunday. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:08:18 / 2:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/05/16 / 2016-05-01 07:08:18 / May 1, 2016 @ 7:08 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 95.5159 East, latitude 5.0458 North, depth = 95.54 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005ctk. Id of event: us10005ctk. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 95.54 km (59 miles).
Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Banda Aceh (c. 250 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Reuleuet (c. 40 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Sigli (c. 17 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Reuleuet, Sigli, Banda Aceh. Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 two and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 60 km SSE of Banda Aceh, Indonesia.
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