Paketsolusi.com - According to information from the BMKG website, the 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck at 13:07:48 WIB.
284 kilometers (Km) to the west of Southwest, Jember, the epicenter was in the sea. The earthquake occurred 10 km below the surface.
The BMKG explained that there was no chance that the earthquake would bring about a tsunami.
Up until the publication of this article, there was no information available about MMI or the earthquake's epicenter locations.
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Modified Mercalli Intensity is referred to as MMI.
According to the official website of the BMKG, the Mercalli scale is a metric for determining how powerful an earthquake is.
Giuseppe Mercalli, an Italian volcanologist, developed this device in 1902.
Based on information from those who survived the earthquake, as well as by examining and contrasting the extent of the earthquake's destruction, the Mercalli scale is divided into 12 fractions.
The Mercalli scale is less accurate and more arbitrary than other methods for determining earthquake magnitude.
As a result, the Richter Scale is currently more frequently used to gauge the intensity of earthquakes.
Although it was developed in 1931 by seismologists Harry Wood and Frank Neumann, the modified Mercalli scale is still widely used today.
especially if there is no seismometer apparatus on the scene that can gauge the magnitude of an earthquake.