A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Blangpidie in Indonesia. Global time and date of event 29/03/25 / 2025-03-29 10:08:13 / March 29, 2025 @ 10:08 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pnl1. Id of event: us7000pnl1. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 96.3979° East, latitude 3.7392° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 10:08:13 / 10:08 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Meulaboh. Event epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Meulaboh (c. 35 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. 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: 48 km W of Blangpidie, Indonesia.
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