A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Painan in Indonesia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/02/18 / 2018-02-12 09:56:54 / February 12, 2018 @ 9:56 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000d0v9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d0v9. Exact location, longitude 100.6143° East, latitude -2.0957° South, depth = 67.05 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 67.05 km (42 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:56:54 / 4:56 pm (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Event epicenter was 86 km (54 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 earthquakes 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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 82 km S of Painan, Indonesia.
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