A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Lae in Papua New Guinea. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/09/15 / 2015-09-20 03:01:04 / September 20, 2015 @ 3:01 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 37.54 km (23 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 146.6569 East, latitude -5.9904 South, depth = 37.54 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003m32. Unique identifier: us20003m32. The temblor was picked up at 13:01:04 / 1:01 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kainantu, Lae (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Kainantu (c. 8 500 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 88 km NNW of Lae, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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