A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of event, longitude 155.7949 East, latitude -6.9486 South, depth = 55.48 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Panguna in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us100068rp. Event ids that are associated: us100068rp. The temblor was picked up at 00:19:10 / 12:19 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 30/07/16 / 2016-07-30 13:19:10 / July 30, 2016 @ 1:19 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 55.48 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa. Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate 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: 77 km SSE of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.
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