A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Manokwari in Indonesia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 26.063 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 26.063 km, 134.0695° East, -0.8623° South. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/08/25 / 2025-08-19 15:10:48 / August 19, 2025 @ 3:10 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 15:10:48 / 3:10 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000qvq7. Unique identifier: us7000qvq7.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 2 km (1 miles) from Manokwari (c. 53 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manokwari (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 0 km E of Manokwari, Indonesia.

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