A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Abepura in Indonesia. Unique identifier: us60003sbf. Ids that are associated to the event: us60003sbf. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34.29 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.875 East, latitude -3.4008 South, depth = 34.29 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 14:37:59 / 2:37 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 26/05/19 / 2019-05-26 05:37:59 / May 26, 2019 @ 5:37 am UTC/GMT.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jayapura, Vanimo, Abepura (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Jayapura (c. 134 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Abepura (c. 62 200 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Vanimo (c. 11 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Vanimo (c. 9 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 90 km SSE of Abepura, Indonesia.
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