Very Strong Mag. 6.5 Earthquake – Indian Ocean, 175 km Southeast of Benkulu, Bengkulu, Indonesia, on Tuesday, Aug 23, 2022 at 9:31 pm (GMT +7)

A magnitude 6.6 earthquake close to Benkulu, Bengkulu, Indonesia, was reported solely 17 minutes in the past by the German Analysis Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), thought-about one of many key worldwide companies that monitor seismic exercise worldwide. The earthquake occurred at a shallow depth of 10 km beneath the epicenter within the night on Tuesday, August twenty third, 2022, at 9:31 pm native time. The precise magnitude, epicenter, and depth of the quake is perhaps revised throughout the subsequent few hours or minutes as seismologists evaluation knowledge and refine their calculations, or as different companies difficulty their report.
Our monitoring service recognized a second report from France’s Réseau Nationwide de Surveillance Sismique (RéNaSS) which listed the quake at magnitude 6.1. Different companies reporting the identical quake embody the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) at magnitude 6.2, and the citizen-seismograph community of RaspberryShake at magnitude 6.4.
Based mostly on the preliminary seismic knowledge, the quake was in all probability felt by many individuals within the space of the epicenter. It mustn’t have brought about vital harm, apart from objects falling from cabinets, damaged home windows, and many others.
In Pagar Alam (pop. 70,400) situated 112 km from the epicenter, Tanjungagung (pop. 53,100) 145 km away, Lahat (pop. 65,900) 147 km away, Baturaja (pop. 134,800) 156 km away, and Benkulu (pop. 309,700) 163 km away, the quake ought to have been felt as gentle shaking.
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Based mostly on its magnitude, the fault that was lively through the quake ruptured alongside a floor of approx. 316 km² (=122 sqare miles) as a first-order estimate. The size of the rupture zone thus was in all probability round 31 km (19 mi).
Aftershocks usually happen through the weeks and months following the quake at or close to the identical fault, at distances of as much as approx. two instances the size of the rupture zone.
The usually broadly linear association of aftershock epicenters encompasses the rupture zone of the primary shock (verify on the map under to confirm).

Aug 23, 2022 15:44 7 hours in the past

3.7 18 km

Indian Ocean, 178 km SE of Benkulu, Bengkulu, Indonesia

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