Mount Kinabalu Earthquake

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. 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. Two days after a deadly earthquake in malaysia launched perilous rock slides toward mountain hikers more devastation and more hope emerged.

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Bad weather hampered rescue efforts on friday preventing helicopters from landing.

Mount kinabalu earthquake. Malaysian authorities believe there are as many as 19. The last one a 5 4 magnitude tremor which hit ranau in 1991 also had aftershocks which slowly died down in a few days he said when contacted. During the earthquake one of the peaks on mount kinabalu called the donkey s ears was broken off. They were jailed for three days but their sentences were back dated to reflect.

A recent botanical survey of the mountain estimated a staggering 5 000 to 6 000 plant species excluding mosses and liverworts but including ferns which is more than all of europe. 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 quake has resulted in numerous landslides at the top of the mountain and over mountaineering routes to mount kinabalu. Mount kinabalu along with other upland areas of the crocker range is known worldwide for its botanical and biological species biodiversity with plants of himalayan australasian and indomalayan origin.

The group was blamed for a magnitude 5 9 earthquake after stripping on mount kinabalu which is considered sacred. The earthquake is along an active fault line which cuts across ranau and mount kinabalu in a northwest southeast direction and an earthquake occurs roughly every 25 years. The earthquake was so powerful it also snapped off one of mount kinabalu s donkey s ear peaks mr manjun added. The source of the poring hot springs a popular tourist area near ranau turned murky and black for a few hours due to the earthquake which disrupted a clay deposit that interrupts the fault gap that heats up the rainwater.

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.