A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Jayapura in Indonesia. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/06/16 / 2016-06-21 22:17:05 / June 21, 2016 @ 10:17 pm. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:17:05 / 7:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 140.6531° East, latitude -2.563° South, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us200066k7. Unique identifier: us200066k7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vanimo, Vanimo, Jayapura (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 8 km (5 miles) from Jayapura (c. 134 900 pop), 4 km (3 miles) from Abepura (c. 62 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Vanimo (c. 11 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Vanimo (c. 9 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km WSW of Jayapura, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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