A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Sabang in Indonesia on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude 94.9095 East, latitude 5.9452 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 04/07/25 / 2025-07-04 06:19:10 / July 4, 2025 @ 6:19 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 06:19:10 / 6:19 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qald. Id of event: us7000qald. The earthquake was roughly 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).
Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Banda Aceh (c. 250 800 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Sabang (c. 24 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Banda Aceh, Sabang. Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 45 km W of Sabang, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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