A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Sinabang in Indonesia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/05/20 / 2020-05-28 06:21:10 / May 28, 2020 @ 6:21 am. The temblor was detected at 06:21:10 / 6:21 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000a5zp. Event ids that are associated: us6000a5zp. Exact location, longitude 96.6249° East, latitude 2.7964° North, depth = 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Epicenter of the event was 44 km (28 miles) from Sinabang (c. 15 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sinabang (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 44 km NE of Sinabang, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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