A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 226 km W of Abepura, Indonesia (140 miles) on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/06/19 / 2019-06-26 10:36:17 / June 26, 2019 @ 10:36 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 138.5523 East, latitude -2.7426 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us70004b61. Unique identifier: us70004b61. The temblor was detected at 19:36:17 / 7:36 pm (local time epicenter).
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 twenty-one, in the last 10 days sixty-nine, in the past 30 days seventy and in the last 365 days ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. 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: 226 km W of Abepura, Indonesia.
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