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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Bengkulu in Indonesia

Posted by admin on August 15, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -3.7131S, 101.8148WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Bengkulu in Indonesia. The temblor was detected at 15:19:33 / 3:19 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Bengkulu in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 57.6 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 101.8148 East, latitude -3.7131 South, depth = 57.6 km. Id of earthquake: us100032kd. Event ids that are associated: us100032kd. Global time and date of event 15/08/15 / 2015-08-15 08:19:33 / August 15, 2015 @ 8:19 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Curup, Bengkulu (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Bengkulu (c. 309 700 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Curup (c. 46 200 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 three and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 50 km W of Bengkulu, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 101.8148° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.7131° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km W 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 2015-08-15 08:19:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-15 08:48:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3 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 1 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 386 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 2.99 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us100032kd Id of event.
Event Code 100032kd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100032kd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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