A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Jayapura in Indonesia. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:30:30 / 5:30 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us10006ufk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006ufk. Exact location of event, longitude 140.534 East, latitude -1.9556 South, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/10/16 / 2016-10-01 20:30:30 / October 1, 2016 @ 8:30 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Abepura, Jayapura (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Jayapura (c. 134 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Abepura (c. 62 200 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 66 km NNW of Jayapura, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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