Earthquake?!!

There are several users of Chinese Cari Forum from Penang and Selangor said that they can felt the tremor of buildings around 4.20pm today. They suspected earthquake had occurred somewhere.

According to Malaysian Meteorological Department, a weak earthquake has occourced.

REVISION OF EARTHQUAKE INFORMATION
Issued by Malaysian Meteorological Department
Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation
at 5.40 pm 20/02/2008

This is a revision of the earthquake information issued at 5.35 pm.

A weak earthquake has occurred with these revised parameters:

Time of Occurrence : 5.11 pm on 20 February 2008

Coordinates : 2.9 North 97.8 East

Location : Northern Sumatera,127km southweast of Medan,Indonesia. 383km southweast of B.Lepas.

Magnitude : 4.9 on Richter scale

Assessment

No tsunami threat