A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Madang in Papua New Guinea on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 145.6603 East, latitude -5.4035 South, depth = 85.64 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 85.64 km (53 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 00:42:27 / 12:42 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000421m. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000421m. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/11/15 / 2015-11-29 14:42:27 / November 29, 2015 @ 2:42 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Goroka, Madang. Epicenter of the earthquake was 25 km (16 miles) from Madang (c. 27 400 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Goroka (c. 18 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-one 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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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: 24 km SW of Madang, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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