A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Sinabang in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 95.8728 East, latitude 2.6649 North, depth = 31.2 km. Unique identifier: us1000aud4. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000aud4. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31.2 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 04:18:45 / 4:18 am (local time epicenter). 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: 19/10/17 / 2017-10-19 21:18:45 / October 19, 2017 @ 9:18 pm.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sinabang (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Sinabang (c. 15 000 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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