A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 83 km ESE of Taron, Papua New Guinea (52 miles). Unique identifier: us20006i2n. Ids that are associated to the event: us20006i2n. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/07/16 / 2016-07-27 12:22:38 / July 27, 2016 @ 12:22 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 73.33 km (46 miles). The temblor was detected at 22:22:38 / 10:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 153.6709 East, latitude -4.8676 South, depth = 73.33 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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: 83 km ESE of Taron, Papua New Guinea.
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