A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Sungai Penuh in Indonesia. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pxts. Unique identifier: us6000pxts. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/03/25 / 2025-03-09 18:29:21 / March 9, 2025 @ 6:29 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 101.1144 East, latitude -2.8004 South, depth = 53.752 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 53.752 km (33 miles). The temblor was picked up at 18:29:21 / 6:29 pm (local time epicenter).
Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Sungai Penuh (c. 95 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sungai Penuh (min 5000 pop).
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 one and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 87 km SSW of Sungai Penuh, Indonesia.
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