A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Abepura in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.1866 East, latitude -2.5008 South, depth = 10 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:10:10 / 7:10 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/02/16 / 2016-02-26 22:10:10 / February 26, 2016 @ 10:10 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us10004u1p. Unique identifier: us10004u1p. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
The epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Jayapura (c. 134 900 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Abepura (c. 62 200 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jayapura, Abepura (min 5000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 46 km WNW of Abepura, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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