A tectonic earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale jolted Bengkulu province again on Saturday morning but there was no immediate report of fatalities or damage, ANTARA reported. The local Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG) said the epicenter of the earthquake was located at 3.06 degrees southern latitude and 101.17 degrees eastern longitude at a depth of 10 kilometers below sea level, or some 53 kilometers southeast of Muku-muko district. The temblor was the third to have happened over the past three days or since Thursday. The BMG said, a tectonic earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale also hit Bengkulu early Friday morning. According to the agency, the epicenter of Friday's quake which struck 45 minutes after midnight was located at 2.92 degrees southern latitude and 100.98 degrees eastern longitude at a depth of 54 kilometers, and 44 kilometers southwest of Muko-muko district. Earlier, on Thursday, Bengkulu was also jolted by another earthquake with similar magnitude at a depth of 80 kilometers below sea level, or 95 km southwest of Bintuhan in Kaur district. The earthquake's epicenter was located at 4.95 degrees southern latitude and 102.54 degrees eastern longitude. And on Sunday morning, April 27, a 5.6 magnitude earthquake also hit the waters off the Bengkulu coast. The epicenter of the quake which struck at 08.16 a.m. was 79 km southeast of Mukomuko, north Bengkulu, at a depth of 10 km, the Meteorology and Geophysics Board (BMG) said. The quake did not have the potential to cause a tsunami, it said. A magnitude 7.9 quake rocked Bengkulu on Sept 12 last year, killing dozens of people and destroying thousands of houses. Since then, earthquakes, most of them measuring less than 4 on the Richter scale, jolted the province almost everyday.
