A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Sinabang in Indonesia. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 96.208° East, 2.3275° North. The temblor was reported at 04:27:19 / 4:27 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000hv6g. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hv6g. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/11/18 / 2018-11-21 21:27:19 / November 21, 2018 @ 9:27 pm.
Earthquake epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Sinabang (c. 15 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sinabang (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 25 km SW of Sinabang, Indonesia.
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