A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Padangsidempuan in Indonesia. Unique identifier: us70005bj5. Ids that are associated to the event: us70005bj5. Exact location of event, depth 158.12 km, 99.4454° East, 1.7241° North. Global time and date of event 28/08/19 / 2019-08-28 10:00:29 / August 28, 2019 @ 10:00 am UTC/GMT. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:00:29 / 5:00 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 158.12 km (98 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Epicenter of the event was 60 km (37 miles) from Rantauprapat (c. 103 000 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Padangsidempuan (c. 100 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Sibolga (c. 79 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Bandar (c. 31 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sibolga, Rantauprapat, Bandar (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 44 km NNE of Padangsidempuan, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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