A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Sorong in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10007rfh. Unique identifier: us10007rfh. The temblor was picked up at 22:42:16 / 10:42 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/12/16 / 2016-12-20 13:42:16 / December 20, 2016 @ 1:42 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 34.67 km (22 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 131.2295° East, -0.8496° South, depth 34.67 km.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 5 km (3 miles) from Sorong (c. 125 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sorong (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 three 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 4 km NNW of Sorong, Indonesia.
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