A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Taron in Papua New Guinea. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 51.53 km (32 miles). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:31:27 / 10:31 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 153.052 East, latitude -4.5642 South, depth = 51.53 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/03/16 / 2016-03-18 00:31:27 / March 18, 2016 @ 12:31 am. Unique identifier: us20005amh. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005amh. A tsunami warning has been issued near Taron in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Epicenter of the event was 91 km (56 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 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 eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.
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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: 10 km S of Taron, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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