A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Nabire in Indonesia on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 134.7205 East, latitude -3.6258 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 00:51:21 / 12:51 am (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 earthquake 27/04/18 / 2018-04-27 15:51:21 / April 27, 2018 @ 3:51 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us1000dtdk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dtdk.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nabire (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Nabire (c. 43 900 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 89 km WSW of Nabire, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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