A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, Bougainville region, Papua New Guinea kilometers (0 miles) from Bougainville region, Papua New Guinea. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:24:58 / 9:24 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/06/16 / 2016-06-28 21:24:58 / June 28, 2016 @ 9:24 pm. Exact location of event, depth 114.34 km, 155.7325° East, -6.6346° South. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005z95. Id of event: us10005z95. The epicenter was at a depth of 114.34 km (71 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 two and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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: Bougainville region, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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