A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Sungaipenuh in Indonesia. Exact location of event, depth 141.3 km, 101.5636° East, -2.1238° South. All ids that are associated to the event: us20007gnn. Unique identifier: us20007gnn. The temblor was detected at 05:11:07 / 5:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/10/16 / 2016-10-20 22:11:07 / October 20, 2016 @ 10:11 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 141.3 km (88 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 21 km (13 miles) from Sungai Penuh (c. 95 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sungai Penuh (min 5000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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: 20 km ESE of Sungaipenuh, Indonesia.
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