A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Sinabang in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30.63 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/12/16 / 2016-12-10 11:44:57 / December 10, 2016 @ 11:44 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 30.63 km, 96.2804° East, 2.4189° North. The temblor was reported at 18:44:57 / 6:44 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us200081kd. Ids that are associated to the event: us200081kd.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 13 km (8 miles) from Sinabang (c. 15 000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sinabang (min 5000 pop).
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 twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.
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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: 13 km WSW of Sinabang, Indonesia.
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