A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Bengkulu in Indonesia. Exact location of event, depth 54.05 km, 102.2274° East, -4.6162° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 54.05 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009m8r. Id of event: us20009m8r. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 13/06/17 / 2017-06-13 22:27:05 / June 13, 2017 @ 10:27 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 05:27:05 / 5:27 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bengkulu. Epicenter of the event was 91 km (56 miles) from Bengkulu (c. 309 700 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 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: 90 km S of Bengkulu, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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