Kendari Shallow Earthquake, The Shock Was Feelin' Make People Panic Scattered

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KENDARI - Residents of Kendari City, Southeast Sulawesi, panicked and rushed out of their houses and buildings when an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.9 with a depth of 2 km occurred.

A number of residents in this city came out of their homes and buildings for fear of an earthquake. One of them in the Kelurahan Anduonohu, Rahandouna, Mandonga, Baruga even almost the entire area of Kendari City felt the earthquake tremor.

Not only that, due to the earthquake that shook quite strongly, making guests at one of the five-star hotels in Kendari City scatter, they scrambled to get out of the hotel building.

Head of Geophysics Station Kendari Rudin said the results of the BMKG analysis showed this earthquake had a parameter with a magnitude of 4.9.

"The occurrence and parameters of the earthquake on Friday, March 25, 2022, at 21:20 WITA in the northeast of Soropia, Konawe Regency was rocked by a tectonic earthquake," he said, quoted by Antara, Friday, March 25.

He said the earthquake's epicenter was located at coordinates 3.87 South Latitude, 122.76 East Longitude, or precisely located at sea at a distance of 11.9 km, Northeast of Soropia, Konawe Regency, Southeast Sulawesi Province, at a depth of 2 km.

BMKG conveyed that by taking into account the location of the epicenter and the depth of the hypocenter, the earthquake that occurred was a shallow earthquake caused by the activity of the North Kendari fault in the Northeast of Soropia, Konawe Regency.

"The shock of this earthquake was reported to be felt in Kendari III – IV MMI, Ranomeeto and Moramo (Konawe Selatan) III MMI, Besulutu (Konawe) felt II - III MMII (The vibration was felt in the house, the vibration felt as if a truck had passed," he explained.

So far, there have been no reports of damage caused by the earthquake. The modeling results show that the earthquake has no potential for a tsunami.

"As of 22.15 WITA, the results of BMKG monitoring showed that three aftershocks had occurred," he said.