A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Sinabang in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 96.072 East, latitude 2.3457 North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hb6e. Id of event: us2000hb6e. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/09/18 / 2018-09-08 20:18:42 / September 8, 2018 @ 8:18 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 03:18:42 / 3:18 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sinabang (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Sinabang (c. 15 000 pop). Nearby 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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