A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Pasarbaru in Indonesia. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007s3x. Unique identifier: us10007s3x. The epicenter was at a depth of 63.5 km (39 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/01/17 / 2017-01-09 11:28:38 / January 9, 2017 @ 11:28 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Pasarbaru in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 100.3477 East, latitude -1.6463 South, depth = 63.5 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:28:38 / 6:28 pm (local time epicenter).
The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Padang (c. 840 400 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Solok (c. 48 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Solok, Padang (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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