2009 West Papua earthquakes

Earthquake in Southwest Papua, Indonesia 2009 West Papua earthquakes Papua earthquake shakemap.jpg Indonesia y doublet 2009-01-03 19:43:55 2009-01-03 22:33:42 13989025 13989020 usp000gs2d usp000gs3t January 4, 2009 04:43 07:23 7.6 w y GCMTEHB 13989025 7.4 w y GCMTEHB 13989020 30 km mi 0 onGEM 13989020 -0.414 132.885 region:PG_type:event inline,title ThrustPoiata Koketsu Miyake 2010. Indonesia A: VIPapua 2009a Shakemap usp000gs2d#shakemap B: 7Papua 2009b Shakemap usp000gs3t#shakemap 1.8 m onPoiata Koketsu Miyake 2010. 4 dead, dozens injured The 2009 West Papua earthquakes occurred on January 4 local time in Indonesia's Tambrauw Regency in Southwest Papua (then West Papua Province). The very large earthquake doublet comprised an initial moment magnitude (w) 7.6 shock during which the shaking reached a maximum intensity of VI (Strong) on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale and a second event measuring w 7.4 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). The events took place less than three hours apart to the east-northeast of Sorong on the Bird's Head Peninsula and left at least four people dead and dozens injured. Earthquake There were twenty-three aftershocks above magnitude 5.0 and another at magnitude 6.0. The earthquakes were also felt in nearby Papua New Guinea and Darwin, Australia.Strong earthquakes hit Indonesia https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7810106.stm 8 January 2022 BBC News 4 January 2009Quiano Kathy Indonesia earthquake kills at least 2, injures 35 http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/03/indonesia.earthquake/index.html 8 January 2022 CNN 4 January 2009 Impact An official of World Vision International, a humanitarian aid organization, said ten buildings had been destroyed, including several hotels and the house of a government official. Officials said three people, who had been staying at the Mutiara hotel in the city of Manokwari, were pulled alive from the rubble and taken to a hospital. Two hotels collapsed in the quake. See also List of earthquakes in 2009 List of earthquakes in Indonesia References External links cs2 Papua 2009a M7.7 – near the north coast of Papua, Indonesia https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp000gs2d#general_summary cs2 Papua 2009b M7.4 – near the north coast of Papua, Indonesia https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp000gs3t#general_summary cs2 EHB cs2 GEM ISC-GEM Global Instrumental Earthquake Catalogue (1900–2009) http://www.isc.ac.uk/iscgem/index.php ISC 2015 Version 2.0 N. Poiata K. Koketsu H. Miyake 2010 Source processes of the 2009 Irian Jaya, Indonesia, earthquake doublet Earth, Planets and Space 62 5 475 2010EP&S...62..475P 10.5047/eps.2010.02.008 https://www.terrapub.co.jp/journals/EPS/pdf/2010/6205/62050475.pdf free 2015-11-04 2016-03-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304192420/https://www.terrapub.co.jp/journals/EPS/pdf/2010/6205/62050475.pdf dead Earthquake in Papua, Indonesia – NASA Earth Observatory 13989025 Category:2009 tsunamis Papua earthquake Category:Papua (province) Category:West Papua (province) Papua earthquake 2009 Category:Tsunamis in Indonesia Category:January 2009 in Indonesia