A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Vanimo in Papua New Guinea. Unique identifier: us100062k6. Ids that are associated to the event: us100062k6. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 141.0563° East, -3.3821° South. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/07/16 / 2016-07-04 16:54:15 / July 4, 2016 @ 4:54 pm. The temblor was detected at 02:54:15 / 2:54 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 99 km (62 miles) from Abepura (c. 62 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Vanimo (c. 11 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Vanimo (c. 9 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Abepura, Vanimo, Vanimo. Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 82 km SSW of Vanimo, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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