A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 119 km S of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea (74 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10002m4v. Unique identifier: us10002m4v. The temblor was detected at 07:30:08 / 7:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 152.2692° East, latitude -5.4286° South, depth = 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/06/15 / 2015-06-27 21:30:08 / June 27, 2015 @ 9:30 pm UTC/GMT.
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 ten and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-four 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: 119 km S of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.
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