A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Madang in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cylz. Id of event: us2000cylz. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 145.6947 East, latitude -5.2508 South, depth = 53.04 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 53.04 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:54:59 / 11:54 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/02/18 / 2018-02-08 01:54:59 / February 8, 2018 @ 1:54 am.
Close 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 Madang. Epicenter of the event was 12 km (7 miles) from Madang (c. 27 400 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 11 km WSW of Madang, Papua New Guinea.
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