A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 29/01/18 / 2018-01-29 10:47:12 / January 29, 2018 @ 10:47 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 72.86 km (45 miles). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:47:12 / 8:47 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cqw1. Id of event: us2000cqw1. Exact location of event, longitude 147.4852 East, latitude -5.9655 South, depth = 72.86 km.
Earthquake epicenter was 101 km (63 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lae.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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: 82 km NNW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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