A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Muara Siberut in Indonesia. The epicenter was at a depth of 45.74 km (28 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 99.6884 East, latitude -1.3392 South, depth = 45.74 km. The temblor was detected at 06:23:52 / 6:23 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000cfhv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000cfhv. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/02/18 / 2018-02-03 23:23:52 / February 3, 2018 @ 11:23 pm.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pariaman, Padang. Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (53 miles) from Padang (c. 840 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Pariaman (c. 92 200 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 60 km ENE of Muara Siberut, Indonesia.
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