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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 49 km SSW of Bengkulu, Indonesia


Earthquake location -4.2028S, 102.0625WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Bengkulu in Indonesia on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60.79 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 102.0625° East, latitude -4.2028° South, depth = 60.79 km. Global time and date of event 19/05/18 / 2018-05-19 23:03:43 / May 19, 2018 @ 11:03 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 06:03:43 / 6:03 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000eajk. Id of event: us1000eajk.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 50 km (31 miles) from Bengkulu (c. 309 700 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Curup (c. 46 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Curup, Bengkulu (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 49 km SSW of Bengkulu, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 102.0625° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.2028° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km 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 2018-05-19 23:03:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-17 00:55:29 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 312 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 0.904 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 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 us1000eajk Id of event.
Event Code 1000eajk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000eajk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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