A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 66.94 km (42 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 07:34:36 / 7:34 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000brxk. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000brxk. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 155.1686 East, latitude -6.7122 South, depth = 66.94 km. Global time and date of event 11/11/17 / 2017-11-11 20:34:36 / November 11, 2017 @ 8:34 pm UTC/GMT.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 56 km SW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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