A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Lae in Papua New Guinea on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/04/16 / 2016-04-27 00:44:03 / April 27, 2016 @ 12:44 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 146.8664 East, latitude -6.3366 South, depth = 106.26 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:44:03 / 10:44 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005e2b. Id of event: us10005e2b. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 106.26 km (66 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Event epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lae.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. 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: 44 km NNW of Lae, Papua New Guinea.
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