A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Arawa in Papua New Guinea. Unique identifier: us10008na4. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008na4. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 154.7919 East, latitude -5.8485 South, depth = 168.61 km. Global time and date of event 25/04/17 / 2017-04-25 14:11:27 / April 25, 2017 @ 2:11 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 01:11:27 / 1:11 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 168.61 km (105 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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