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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Bengkulu in Indonesia


Earthquake location -4.5024S, 102.5247WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Bengkulu in Indonesia on Sunday. Exact location, longitude 102.5247° East, latitude -4.5024° South, depth = 55.25 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/01/21 / 2021-01-24 13:03:29 / January 24, 2021 @ 1:03 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000d2wn. Id of event: us7000d2wn. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55.25 km (34 miles). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:03:29 / 1:03 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (52 miles) from Bengkulu (c. 309 700 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Pageralam (c. 70 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pageralam, Bengkulu. Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate 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 three and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 82 km SSE of Bengkulu, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 102.5247° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.5024° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82 km SSE 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 2021-01-24 13:03:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-24 13:20:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 385 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 0.452 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us7000d2wn Id of event.
Event Code 7000d2wn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d2wn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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