7.2 Earthquake near PAPUA, INDONESIA

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Magnitude 7.2

Date-Time Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 17:11:24 UTC
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 02:11:24 AM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 4.920?S, 133.783?E

Depth 12.3 km (7.6 miles)


Region NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA

Distances 105 km (65 miles) NNW of Dobo, Kepulauan Aru, Indonesia
310 km (190 miles) WSW of Enarotali, Papua, Indonesia
900 km (560 miles) NNE of DARWIN, Northern Territory, Australia
2985 km (1850 miles) E of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 13.7 km (8.5 miles); depth +/- 2.6 km (1.6 miles)

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2010bubv.php

 

[AlaskaDenise]

Re: 7.2 EQ near PAPUA, INDONESIA

Re: 7.2 EQ near PAPUA, INDONESIA

This earthquake was preceeded by a 6.6 earthquake only about 30 seconds earlier.

At this time no Tsunami alert has been generated, but that may change.

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[AlaskaDenise]

Re: 7.2 EQ near PAPUA, INDONESIA

Re: 7.2 EQ near PAPUA, INDONESIA

It is estimated that only about 84,000 people will impacted with light shaking.

USGS has a new "ALERT" summary page style. For this quake it is at:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/pager/events/us/2010bubv/onepager.pdf

Note that it includes estimated economic loss.

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