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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Bengkulu in Indonesia


Earthquake location -4.2757S, 102.3625WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Bengkulu in Indonesia on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 60.97 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 102.3625° East, -4.2757° South, depth 60.97 km. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:14:18 / 5:14 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 02/08/15 / 2015-08-02 22:14:18 / August 2, 2015 @ 10:14 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us10002xcz. Unique identifier: us10002xcz.

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pageralam, Curup, Bengkulu (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Bengkulu (c. 309 700 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from Pageralam (c. 70 400 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Curup (c. 46 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 53 km SSE of Bengkulu, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 102.3625° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.2757° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km SSE of Bengkulu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-02 22:14:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-02 23:41:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 369 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.701 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10002xcz Id of event.
Event Code 10002xcz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002xcz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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