A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, Nias region, Indonesia kilometers (0 miles) from Nias region, Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 96.7377 East, latitude 1.9674 North, depth = 21.58 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:42:08 / 10:42 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us100068w2. Ids that are associated to the event: us100068w2. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/07/16 / 2016-07-30 22:42:08 / July 30, 2016 @ 10:42 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.58 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sinabang. The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Sinabang (c. 15 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. 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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: Nias region, Indonesia.
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