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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 186 km S of Bengkulu, Indonesia


Earthquake location -5.4883S, 102.3197WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 186 km S of Bengkulu, Indonesia (116 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 15:26:06 / 3:26 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/02/21 / 2021-02-28 15:26:06 / February 28, 2021 @ 3:26 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location, longitude 102.3197° East, latitude -5.4883° South, depth = 35 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000dfjc. Unique identifier: us7000dfjc.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 186 km S of Bengkulu, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 102.3197° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.4883° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 186 km S 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 2021-02-28 15:26:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-03-07 20:12:57 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 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 312 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 1.287 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us7000dfjc Id of event.
Event Code 7000dfjc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000dfjc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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