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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Bengkulu in Indonesia


Earthquake location -4.3648S, 102.4088WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Bengkulu in Indonesia on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 64.48 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 02:08:36 / 2:08 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/05/18 / 2018-05-19 19:08:36 / May 19, 2018 @ 7:08 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Bengkulu in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 102.4088° East, -4.3648° South, depth 64.48 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000e8nf. Unique identifier: us1000e8nf.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 65 km (40 miles) from Bengkulu (c. 309 700 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Pageralam (c. 70 400 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Curup (c. 46 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pageralam, Curup, Bengkulu (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. 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 twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 64 km SSE of Bengkulu, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 102.4088° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.3648° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km 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 2018-05-19 19:08:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-19 19:31:57 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 1 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 0.545 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us1000e8nf Id of event.
Event Code 1000e8nf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e8nf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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