A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 100 km SSW of Manokwari, Indonesia (62 miles). Exact location, longitude 133.6419° East, latitude -1.6701° South, depth = 59.75 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000a8ps. Unique identifier: us6000a8ps. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/06/20 / 2020-06-02 14:59:17 / June 2, 2020 @ 2:59 pm. The temblor was picked up at 14:59:17 / 2:59 pm (local time epicenter). 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 59.75 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface.
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 two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. 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: 100 km SSW of Manokwari, Indonesia.
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