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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 89 km NNW of Jayapura, Indonesia


Earthquake location -1.8254S, 140.3185WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Jayapura in Indonesia. Exact location of event, depth 15.01 km, 140.3185° East, -1.8254° South. The temblor was picked up at 21:33:58 / 9:33 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/09/16 / 2016-09-24 12:33:58 / September 24, 2016 @ 12:33 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us10006sbe. Unique identifier: us10006sbe. The epicenter was at a depth of 15.01 km (9 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jayapura (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 90 km (56 miles) from Jayapura (c. 134 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 89 km NNW of Jayapura, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.3185° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.8254° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km NNW of Jayapura, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-24 12:33:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-08 07:20:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 259 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 14.234 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 296 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10006sbe Id of event.
Event Code 10006sbe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006sbe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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