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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Bengkulu in Indonesia


Earthquake location -5.2203S, 102.2238WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 157 km S of Bengkulu, Indonesia (98 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 30.41 km (19 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/03/20 / 2020-03-06 19:52:58 / March 6, 2020 @ 7:52 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us60008bbr. Event ids that are associated: us60008bbr. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:52:58 / 2:52 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 102.2238 East, latitude -5.2203 South, depth = 30.41 km.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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: 157 km S of Bengkulu, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 102.2238° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.2203° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 157km S 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 2020-03-06 19:52:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-06 20:21:40 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 369 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 1.123 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us60008bbr Id of event.
Event Code 60008bbr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60008bbr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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