A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 95 kilometers (59 miles) from Bengkulu in Indonesia on Sunday. Exact location, longitude 101.4422° East, latitude -3.5379° South, depth = 76.33 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/09/17 / 2017-09-24 10:26:37 / September 24, 2017 @ 10:26 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:26:37 / 5:26 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000awka. Unique identifier: us2000awka. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 76.33 km (47 miles).
Earthquake epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Bengkulu (c. 309 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bengkulu (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 95 km WNW of Bengkulu, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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