A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005zn8. Unique identifier: us20005zn8. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 147.6135 East, latitude -6.2013 South, depth = 85.86 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 23:42:30 / 11:42 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 85.86 km (53 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/05/16 / 2016-05-27 13:42:30 / May 27, 2016 @ 1:42 pm.
Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lae.
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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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. 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: 52 km NNW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea.
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