A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 155.5081 East, latitude -6.9644 South, depth = 128.07 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:42:49 / 8:42 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/12/17 / 2017-12-28 21:42:49 / December 28, 2017 @ 9:42 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cixh. Id of event: us2000cixh. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 128.07 km (80 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arawa (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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 71 km S of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.
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