Strong earthquake, 6.2 mag strikes near Bengkulu in Indonesia

A earthquake with magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) was reported 217 km SSW of Bengkulu, Indonesia (135 miles) on Wednesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 10/02/21 / 2021-02-10 12:52:27 / February 10, 2021 @ 12:52 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 12:52:27 / 12:52 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000dg70. Id of event: us6000dg70. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 101.6553° East, -5.665° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 217 km SSW of Bengkulu, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	101.6553° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.665° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	217 km 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	2021-02-10 12:52:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-02-10 13:11:57	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	4.288	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	591	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	1.832	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	35	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000dg70	Id of event.
Event Code	6000dg70	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000dg70,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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