A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Bengkulu in Indonesia. Id of earthquake: us2000jine. Event ids that are associated: us2000jine. Exact location of event, longitude 101.9982 East, latitude -4.4716 South, depth = 35 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/02/19 / 2019-02-16 01:27:11 / February 16, 2019 @ 1:27 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The temblor was picked up at 08:27:11 / 8:27 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bengkulu (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 80 km (50 miles) from Bengkulu (c. 309 700 pop). Close 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 three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 79 km SSW of Bengkulu, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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