A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea on Monday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/11/16 / 2016-11-28 04:25:33 / November 28, 2016 @ 4:25 am. Exact location, longitude 155.3767° East, latitude -6.8206° South, depth = 39.7 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 39.7 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us10007f5p. Event ids that are associated: us10007f5p. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 15:25:33 / 3:25 pm (local time epicenter).
Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa (min 5000 pop).
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. 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 sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 57 km SSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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