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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 174 km W of Bengkulu, Indonesia


Earthquake location -3.6255S, 100.7087WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 174 km W of Bengkulu, Indonesia (108 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 26.049 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:19:43 / 6:19 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 100.7087° East, -3.6255° South, depth 26.049 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/06/24 / 2024-06-05 06:19:43 / June 5, 2024 @ 6:19 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000mqf7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mqf7.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 174 km W of Bengkulu, Indonesia. This data 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 100.7087° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.6255° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.049 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 174 km W 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 2024-06-05 06:19:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-05 06:43:21 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 68 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.357 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us7000mqf7 Id of event.
Event Code 7000mqf7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mqf7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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