Kuala lumpur earthquake - Kuala Lumpur Earthquakes Today & Yesterday: Latest Quakes Past 48 Hours

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I find it interesting to share this experience of drafting a new design code for Malaysia, where the nation had not considered seismic actions at all in the past.

This logic is often flipped when communicating cost implications to clients and stakeholders in order to avoid the need of any engineering upskilling.

Following the quake tragedy in Sabah, there have been concerns that an earthquake may also hit Kuala Lumpur and according to a geological expert, such misgivings are not misplaced.

If it had not been for Sumatra island taking the hit, sheltering the peninsula, the casualties in Sumatra would probably have been in the peninsula.

The earthquake occurred at a moderately shallow depth of 66 km beneath the epicenter in the evening on Tuesday 10 August 2021 at 9:38 pm local time.