A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Sinabang in Indonesia. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 27.5 km (17 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000dyam. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000dyam. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:11:02 / 5:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/05/18 / 2018-05-04 22:11:02 / May 4, 2018 @ 10:11 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 95.7925 East, latitude 2.546 North, depth = 27.5 km.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Sinabang (c. 15 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sinabang.
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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