A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Lae in Papua New Guinea. Event id: us1000bv1w. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bv1w. The temblor was picked up at 10:52:19 / 10:52 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/12/17 / 2017-12-17 00:52:19 / December 17, 2017 @ 12:52 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 146.9645° East, -6.4439° South.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bulolo, Lae. Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 31 km (19 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Bulolo (c. 16 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 30 km N of Lae, Papua New Guinea.
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