Bottles and drink cans strewn over a supermarket floor in Kota Belud, Sabah, following a 5.2 magnitude earthquake today.
KOTA KINABALU: A 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck the north-west of Sabah this evening, three years after the Ranau earthquake which killed and injured scores of people.
According to the US Geological Survey, the earthquake occurred at 9.06pm, with the epicentre some 11km north-west of Ranau.
Witnesses said it lasted for about three seconds, causing minor damage.
“It was weak at first, and then got stronger and then stopped,” one witness told FMT.
Climbers at Mount Kinabalu’s Laban Rata, more than 3,000 metres above sea level, minutes after the earthquake struck near Ranau tonight.
Several residents in Kota Kinabalu, Kota Maradu, Tuaran and Kudat said they too felt the tremors. Scores of mountain climbers at Laban Rata on Mount Kinabalu were also forced to stop their journey.
Sabah has experienced minor tremors since the 6.0 magnitude quake on June 5, 2015, which killed 18 people and injured some 130 others.
The 2015 earthquake lasted about 30 seconds, stranding hundreds of mountain climbers from 16 countries on Mount Kinabalu.
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