A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 100 km WNW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea (62 miles) on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 09:46:22 / 9:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 151.363 East, latitude -3.7939 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 18/03/17 / 2017-03-18 23:46:22 / March 18, 2017 @ 11:46 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us20008t3x. Event ids that are associated: us20008t3x.
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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: 100 km WNW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.
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