A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Sinabang in Indonesia. Global time and date of event 10/09/18 / 2018-09-10 21:28:10 / September 10, 2018 @ 9:28 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 03:28:10 / 3:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 96.615° East, 2.0283° North, depth 26.08 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 26.08 km (16 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000hc4v. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000hc4v.
Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Sinabang (c. 15 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sinabang (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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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: 56 km SSE of Sinabang, Indonesia.
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