A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Kimbe in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 23/03/16 / 2016-03-23 12:20:36 / March 23, 2016 @ 12:20 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 22:20:36 / 10:20 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 182.27 km (113 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 150.6216° East, -5.3665° South, depth 182.27 km. Event id: us20005c0q. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005c0q.
The epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kimbe (min 5000 pop).
Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. 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: 56 km ENE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea.
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