A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Sinabang in Indonesia. Id of earthquake: us70008kn1. Event ids that are associated: us70008kn1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 95.8464° East, latitude 2.4803° North, depth = 27.05 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/03/20 / 2020-03-28 23:06:55 / March 28, 2020 @ 11:06 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 27.05 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:06:55 / 6:06 am (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Sinabang (c. 15 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sinabang. Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 sixteen 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.
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