Overview

• Malaysia’s MetMalaysia recorded a magnitude-4.1 earthquake near Segamat on Aug 24, about 180km from Singapore, with tremors felt across parts of Johor, Negeri Sembilan, Melaka and southern Pahang, and no casualties reported.
• BCA reported that none of the tremor sensors installed on buildings across Singapore were triggered by the event.
• The agency said local buildings are designed using internationally recognised codes adapted for Singapore to withstand lateral forces from distant earthquakes.
• A smaller magnitude-2.8 tremor was detected later the same morning near Kluang in Johor, according to MetMalaysia.
• Experts from NUS and NTU say intra-plate quakes are less frequent than plate-boundary events but can be damaging in rare cases, while assessing the probability of a damaging earthquake in Singapore as extremely low.