Bengkulu (ANTARA News) - A tectonic earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale rattled the Indonesian province of Bengkulu on Wednesday night but there was no report of casualties.
The quake`s epicenter was 87 km southwest of Bintuhan, Kaur district, at a depth of 48 km, spokesman of the Bengkulu meteorology and geophysics Adjat Sudrajat said on Thursday.
An earthquake with a magnitude of less than 3 is common in Bengkulu following a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that struck the province in June 2000 when 92 people were killed.
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