A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/12/16 / 2016-12-27 15:16:41 / December 27, 2016 @ 3:16 pm. The temblor was picked up at 01:16:41 / 1:16 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10007t4t. Unique identifier: us10007t4t. Exact location, longitude 151.8649° East, latitude -3.8255° South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo, Rabaul (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 53 km NW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.
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