A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. Event id: us2000cqx6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cqx6. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/01/18 / 2018-01-16 00:21:05 / January 16, 2018 @ 12:21 am. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:21:05 / 11:21 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 154.8038 East, latitude -6.0411 South, depth = 219.1 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 219.1 km (136 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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