Sabah Earthquake 2015 Mount Kinabalu

Sabah earthquake 2015 mount kinabalu. As far as we know this was the first earthquake of this magnitude to strike near mount kinabalu in the instrumental records. Eighteen people including hikers and mountain guides were killed by the earthquake and a massive landslide that followed it. Gempa bumi sabah 2015 struck ranau sabah malaysia with a moment magnitude of 6 0 on 5 june which lasted for 30 seconds. It registered a moderate 5 9 on the richter scale but the ranau earthquake on june 5 came as a 2015 shock for sabah and the nation.

The earthquake was the strongest to affect malaysia since the 1976 sabah earthquake. The quake has resulted in numerous landslides at the top of the mountain and over mountaineering routes to mount kinabalu. 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.

The disaster killed 18 climbers of which four were mountaineers joseph solungin ricky masirin valerian joannes and robbie sap tinggi. On 5 june 2015 at 07 15 mst the area around mount kinabalu was damaged by an earthquake. It was the strongest earthquake ever recorded in. 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.