A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Taron in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of event, longitude 152.5892 East, latitude -5.1064 South, depth = 19.88 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Taron in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.88 km (12 miles). The temblor was reported at 21:25:05 / 9:25 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/12/16 / 2016-12-17 11:25:05 / December 17, 2016 @ 11:25 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007pq1. Id of event: us10007pq1.
Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 91 km (57 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo.
In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.
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