A 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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