A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Lae in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/09/15 / 2015-09-06 23:34:07 / September 6, 2015 @ 11:34 pm. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:34:07 / 9:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 65.82 km, 147.4338° East, -6.8912° South. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003knk. Unique identifier: us20003knk. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 65.82 km (41 miles).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bulolo, Wau, Lae (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Bulolo (c. 16 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Wau (c. 14 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each 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 three and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 53 km ESE of Lae, Papua New Guinea.
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