A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/10/15 / 2015-10-20 13:52:01 / October 20, 2015 @ 1:52 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003rw1. Id of event: us10003rw1. The temblor was picked up at 23:52:01 / 11:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 154.9366 East, latitude -6.5747 South, depth = 35 km.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arawa (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 67 km WSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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