A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Taron in Papua New Guinea on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/10/16 / 2016-10-25 18:15:01 / October 25, 2016 @ 6:15 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 61.32 km (38 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Taron in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 152.8474 East, latitude -4.655 South, depth = 61.32 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20007gpq. Unique identifier: us20007gpq. The temblor was detected at 04:15:01 / 4:15 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rabaul, Kokopo. Event epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 29 km SW of Taron, Papua New Guinea.
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