Just 8 minutes ago, a 4.5-magnitude earthquake struck near Jayapura, Kota Jayapura, Provinsi Papua, Indonesia. The tremor was recorded early evening on Thursday, March 19th, 2026, at 6:19 pm local time, at a shallow depth of 14. km below the surface.The event was filed by Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency, the first seismological agency to report it.Our monitoring service identified a second report from the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake which listed the quake at magnitude 4.5 as well.Based on the preliminary seismic data, the quake should not have caused any significant damage, but was probably felt by many people as light vibration in the area of the epicenter. Weak shaking might have been felt in Jayapura (pop. 404,000) located 54 km from the epicenter, and Abepura (pop. 62,200) 54 km away.Other towns or cities near the epicenter where the quake might have been felt as very weak shaking include Sentani (pop. 44,800) located 66 km from the epicenter.VolcanoDiscovery will automatically update magnitude and depth if these change and follow up if other significant news about the quake become available. If you’re in the area, please send us your experience through our reporting mechanism, either online or via our mobile app. This will help us provide more first-hand updates to anyone around the globe who wants to know more about this quake.Earthquake data: Date & time: Mar 19, 2026 06:19 pm (GMT +9) local time (19 Mar 2026 09:19 GMT)Magnitude: 4.5Depth: 14.00 kmEpicenter latitude / longitude: 2.95°S / 140.97°E (Kabupaten Keerom, South Papua, Indonesia)Primary data source: BMKG