A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Sinabang in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 96.7648 East, latitude 3.078 North, depth = 35 km. Id of earthquake: us6000c4td. Event ids that are associated: us6000c4td. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 29/09/20 / 2020-09-29 03:00:39 / September 29, 2020 @ 3:00 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 03:00:39 / 3:00 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sinabang (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Sinabang (c. 15 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 78 km NNE of Sinabang, Indonesia.
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