A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Taron in Papua New Guinea. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/07/15 / 2015-07-03 06:22:31 / July 3, 2015 @ 6:22 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 152.9809 East, latitude -4.7437 South, depth = 49.58 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:22:31 / 4:22 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002yx0. Id of event: us20002yx0. The epicenter was at a depth of 49.58 km (31 miles).
Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kokopo (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 31 km S of Taron, Papua New Guinea.
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