M6.0 earthquake 14 km WNW of Ranau, Malaysia
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck 14 km WNW of Ranau, Malaysia on Fri, Jun 5, 2015, 7:15 AM GMT+8 (23:15 UTC), 10 km (6 mi) below the surface.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 6.0 (mww), strong
- Local time
- UTC
- 2015-06-04 23:15:43 UTC
- Depth
- 10.0 km (6.2 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 5.987° N, 116.541° E
- Region
- Malaysia
- Felt reports
- 111
- Strongest shaking
- VII, very strong shaking
- PAGER alert
- Green
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Deaths and damage
From NOAA NCEI’s Significant Earthquake Database (record 10151), matched to this event by time and place.
- Deaths
- 18
- Injuries
- Some (about 51 to 100)
- Damage
- Limited (under about $1 million)
- Houses damaged
- 23
Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.
Shaking
The USGS ShakeMap: shaking estimated from seismic stations and the quake’s size, on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale.
- Strongest estimated
- VII, very strong shaking
- Peak ground acceleration
- 46.6% of gravity
- Peak ground velocity
- 3.0 cm/s
- Map
- Automatic
Did you feel it?
111 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was VII, very strong shaking.
Estimated impact
The USGS PAGER system estimates deaths and economic losses from the shaking and the population and buildings exposed to it.
- Alert level
- Green: little or no damage or loss of life expected
Fault motion and ground failure
How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.
- Faulting
- Normal
- Moment magnitude
- 6.0 Mww
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 232°, dip 68°, rake -60°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 355°, dip 37°, rake -140°
- Landslide alert
- Yellow
- Liquefaction alert
- Green
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 5.1 km horizontally, 1.6 km in depth
- Depth from
- From modeling of broad-band P waveforms
- Station coverage gap
- 20°
- Stations used
- 309
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 3.0 and up: 6 in the 60 days after this one and 0 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.421 km NNE of Ranau, Malaysia · 4131 days ago · 18 km deep · 26 km away
- 4.6Sabah, Malaysia · 4130 days ago · 10 km deep · 22 km away · felt by 8
- 4.421 km N of Ranau, Malaysia · 4124 days ago · 15 km deep · 25 km away
- 5.327 km N of Ranau, Malaysia · 4124 days ago · 7 km deep · 29 km away · felt by 81
- 4.522 km NNW of Ranau, Malaysia · 4113 days ago · 15 km deep · 16 km away · felt by 5
- 4.641 km NNE of Ranau, Malaysia · 4080 days ago · 15 km deep · 48 km away · felt by 7
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us20002m5s (also filed as gcmt20150604231543, iscgem610635042, atlas20150604231543). Read Sat, Sep 26, 2026, 10:44 AM UTC.