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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Bengkulu in Indonesia

Posted by admin on April 10, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -4.5851S, 102.0573WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Bengkulu in Indonesia. The temblor was picked up at 10:07:26 / 10:07 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us20005grn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005grn. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 39.84 km (25 miles). Global time and date of event 10/04/16 / 2016-04-10 03:07:26 / April 10, 2016 @ 3:07 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 102.0573 East, latitude -4.5851 South, depth = 39.84 km.

Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Bengkulu (c. 309 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bengkulu (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 89 km SSW of Bengkulu, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 102.0573° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.5851° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km SSW 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 2016-04-10 03:07:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-10 03:26:44 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 298 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 0.923 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 198 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 us20005grn Id of event.
Event Code 20005grn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005grn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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