A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Goroka in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was picked up at 12:22:40 / 12:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/08/16 / 2016-08-17 02:22:40 / August 17, 2016 @ 2:22 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10006ebh. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006ebh. Exact location of event, depth 115.89 km, 145.5998° East, -5.8153° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 115.89 km (72 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Madang (c. 27 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Goroka (c. 18 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Kundiawa (c. 9 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Kainantu (c. 8 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kundiawa, Madang, Kainantu. Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.
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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: 37 km NE of Goroka, Papua New Guinea.
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