A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Sungaipenuh in Indonesia on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000dzse. Unique identifier: us2000dzse. The temblor was detected at 03:20:39 / 3:20 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 100.6903 East, latitude -2.3285 South, depth = 69.68 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/04/18 / 2018-04-08 20:20:39 / April 8, 2018 @ 8:20 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 69.68 km (43 miles).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sungai Penuh (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Sungai Penuh (c. 95 900 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 81 km WSW of Sungaipenuh, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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