A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Bengkulu in Indonesia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/02/16 / 2016-02-20 23:21:47 / February 20, 2016 @ 11:21 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 06:21:47 / 6:21 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10004s41. Event ids that are associated: us10004s41. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.62 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 47.62 km, 102.2127° East, -4.2396° South.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Curup, Bengkulu (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 49 km (31 miles) from Bengkulu (c. 309 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Curup (c. 46 200 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 48 km S of Bengkulu, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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