A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 143 km SE of Taron, Papua New Guinea (89 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10007pr4. Unique identifier: us10007pr4. The temblor was reported at 21:40:05 / 9:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 153.8623 East, latitude -5.4672 South, depth = 50.31 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 50.31 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/12/16 / 2016-12-17 11:40:05 / December 17, 2016 @ 11:40 am.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-eight, in the last 10 days sixty-nine, in the past 30 days seventy-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-one 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 143 km SE of Taron, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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