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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Bengkulu in Indonesia

Posted by admin on July 12, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -4.0625S, 101.9279WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Bengkulu in Indonesia. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 40.89 km (25 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 101.9279 East, latitude -4.0625 South, depth = 40.89 km. The temblor was reported at 22:52:33 / 10:52 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/06/17 / 2017-06-26 15:52:33 / June 26, 2017 @ 3:52 pm. Id of earthquake: us100096ew. Event ids that are associated: us100096ew.

Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Bengkulu (c. 309 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Curup (c. 46 200 pop). 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).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixteen 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 47 km SW of Bengkulu, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 101.9279° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.0625° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km SW 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 2017-06-26 15:52:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-12 13:16:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 271 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 1.066 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 us100096ew Id of event.
Event Code 100096ew An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100096ew, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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