A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Jayapura in Indonesia on Sunday. Exact location of event, depth 40.04 km, 140.4936° East, -2.2117° South. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/09/16 / 2016-09-18 12:02:33 / September 18, 2016 @ 12:02 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 40.04 km (25 miles). The temblor was reported at 21:02:33 / 9:02 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us10006qnc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006qnc.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Abepura, Jayapura. Earthquake epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Jayapura (c. 134 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Abepura (c. 62 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 42 km NNW of Jayapura, Indonesia.
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