A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Namatanai in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was detected at 08:33:33 / 8:33 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/05/17 / 2017-05-16 22:33:33 / May 16, 2017 @ 10:33 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10008sy7. Unique identifier: us10008sy7. Exact location of earthquake, 152.5657° East, -4.0394° South, depth 9 km.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 48 km (30 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kokopo, Rabaul (min 5000 pop).
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 three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 43 km SSE of Namatanai, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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