A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 191 km SSE of Sinabang, Indonesia (119 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000h3nt. Unique identifier: us1000h3nt. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:20:38 / 3:20 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/09/18 / 2018-09-28 09:20:38 / September 28, 2018 @ 9:20 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 97.0153 East, latitude 0.8729 North, depth = 35 km.
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. 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: 191 km SSE of Sinabang, Indonesia.
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