A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Kimbe in Papua New Guinea on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us100035cs. Event ids that are associated: us100035cs. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/08/15 / 2015-08-11 17:11:11 / August 11, 2015 @ 5:11 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 150.5272 East, latitude -5.6755 South, depth = 84.61 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 84.61 km (53 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:11:11 / 3:11 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kimbe (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 44 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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