Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Kudat in Malaysia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Kudat in Malaysia. The temblor was detected at 01:58:30 / 1:58 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 620.54 km, 116.3824° East, 6.9303° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/06/20 / 2020-06-30 01:58:30 / June 30, 2020 @ 1:58 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 620.54 km (386 miles). Event id: us7000ajc1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ajc1.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kota Belud, Kudat. Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Kudat (c. 32 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Kota Belud (c. 12 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Malaysia (c. 28 275 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 48 km W of Kudat, Malaysia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	116.3824° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.9303° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	620.54 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	48 km W of Kudat, Malaysia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-06-30 01:58:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-12 23:37:04	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	369	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.895	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	31	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000ajc1	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ajc1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ajc1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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