A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Sinabang in Indonesia. Exact location of event, longitude 95.8708 East, latitude 2.5685 North, depth = 28.99 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:51:06 / 10:51 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 28.99 km (18 miles). Global time and date of event 08/01/18 / 2018-01-08 15:51:06 / January 8, 2018 @ 3:51 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000c214. Id of event: us1000c214.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sinabang (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (36 miles) from Sinabang (c. 15 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourteen 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 57 km W of Sinabang, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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