Magnitude 5.4 earthquake strikes 202 km W of Abepura, Indonesia

A magnitude 5.4 earthquake struck 202 kilometers west of Abepura, Indonesia, on Friday, July 24, 2026, at 12:14:28 GMT. The seismic event occurred at a shallow depth of 10 kilometers. Its coordinates were recorded as -2.5572 latitude and 138.8159 longitude.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) registers earthquake magnitudes on a logarithmic scale, where each whole number increase represents a tenfold increase in measured wave amplitude and approximately 32 times more energy released. The depth of an earthquake, such as the 10-kilometer depth in this instance, indicates how far below the Earth's surface the rupture occurred.