A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 98 km SSW of Bengkulu, Indonesia (61 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 101.9911 East, latitude -4.6489 South, depth = 42.39 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us200066jq. Unique identifier: us200066jq. The temblor was detected at 14:19:54 / 2:19 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/06/16 / 2016-06-21 07:19:54 / June 21, 2016 @ 7:19 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 42.39 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. 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: 98 km SSW of Bengkulu, Indonesia.
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