Summary
On 6/16/2010 3:58:10 AM UTC an earthquake of magnitude 6.6 and depth 19.9km has struck an sparsely populated area in the Irian Jaya Province (population: 1.7 million) in Indonesia. GDACS estimates the likelihood for need of international humanitarian intervention to be low (Green alert).
It is likely that a tsunami was generated. The maximum tsunami wave height near the coast of will be m. Please refer to the GDACS tsunami report for more details.
This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact since the affected region is sparsely populated and has medium resilience for natural disasters.
The nearest populated places are Wainoei (14km), Waren (19km), Kampung Sanggei (16km). It is a mountainous region with a maximum altitude of 2701 m.
Tsunami Map
On 6/16/2010 3:58:10 AM UTC an earthquake of magnitude 6.6 and depth 19.9km has struck an sparsely populated area in the Irian Jaya Province (population: 1.7 million) in Indonesia. GDACS estimates the likelihood for need of international humanitarian intervention to be low (Green alert).
It is likely that a tsunami was generated. The maximum tsunami wave height near the coast of will be m. Please refer to the GDACS tsunami report for more details.
This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact since the affected region is sparsely populated and has
