A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 99 kilometers (62 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. Id of earthquake: us20005gru. Event ids that are associated: us20005gru. Global time and date of event 10/04/16 / 2016-04-10 04:22:00 / April 10, 2016 @ 4:22 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 14:22:00 / 2:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 151.2769 East, latitude -4.2677 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Event epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rabaul (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 99 km W of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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