A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 108 km WNW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea (67 miles) on Saturday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/01/17 / 2017-01-06 14:00:22 / January 6, 2017 @ 2:00 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 110.21 km, 154.6223° East, -5.8588° South. The temblor was picked up at 01:00:22 / 1:00 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 110.21 km (68 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10007v69. Unique identifier: us10007v69.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days one hundred and nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 108 km WNW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea.
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