A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Sinabang in Indonesia. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/11/18 / 2018-11-21 21:10:30 / November 21, 2018 @ 9:10 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 95.8856° East, 2.5617° North. The temblor was reported at 04:10:30 / 4:10 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000hxfq. Event ids that are associated: us1000hxfq.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 56 km (35 miles) from Sinabang (c. 15 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sinabang (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 55 km W of Sinabang, Indonesia.
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