Kinabalu Earthquake
Ranau and many parts of sabah west coast.
Kinabalu earthquake. Bad weather hampered rescue efforts on friday preventing helicopters from landing. The earthquake was so powerful it also snapped off one of mount kinabalu s donkey s ear peaks mr manjun added. 0 earthquakes in the past 30 days. Malaysian authorities believe there are as many as 19.
The majestic view of the mount kinabalu in kundasang which is about 24 km from ranau sabah was spoilt by an earthquake on june 05 2015 at 7 15am with a magnitude 6 0 on the richter scale. On the friday morning of june 5 rocks cascaded down mount kinabalu with a thunderous rumble as a rare 6 0 magnitude earthquake stuck sabah. A 6 0 magnitude earthquake struck near mount kinabalu on malaysia s borneo cracking roads and buildings in the region and injuring climbers on the popular peak. The earthquake was the strongest to affect malaysia since the 1976 sabah earthquake.
As far as we know this was the first earthquake of this magnitude to strike near mount kinabalu in the instrumental records. Tremors were also felt in tambunan tuaran kota kinabalu inanam kota belud kota marudu kudat likas penampang putatan kinarut papar beaufort. The quake has resulted in numerous landslides at the top of the mountain and over mountaineering routes to mount kinabalu. Kota kinabalu has had.
The 2015 sabah earthquake malay. M1 5 or greater 0 earthquakes in the past 24 hours 0 earthquakes in the past 7 days. A magnitude 5 9 earthquake that killed 16 people on mount kinabalu on friday is being blamed on a group of foreign tourists who stripped naked and took photos on the sacred mountain. The last major earthquake to strike the area occurred in 1976 about 100 kilometres km to the southeast of sabah.
In comparison more than 100 earthquakes above magnitude 6 0 have struck sumatra in the past two decades. Eighteen people including hikers and mountain guides were killed by the earthquake and a massive landslide that followed it.