A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 28 km SSE of Taron, Papua New Guinea (17 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/12/16 / 2016-12-08 21:14:34 / December 8, 2016 @ 9:14 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 70.56 km (44 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 153.141° East, -4.7009° South, depth 70.56 km. Id of earthquake: us200081bq. Event ids that are associated: us200081bq. The temblor was picked up at 07:14:34 / 7:14 am (local time epicenter).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-six, in the last 10 days twenty-seven, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 28 km SSE of Taron, Papua New Guinea.
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