A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. Global time and date of event 04/02/18 / 2018-02-04 13:49:58 / February 4, 2018 @ 1:49 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 00:49:58 / 12:49 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d26b. Id of event: us2000d26b. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 155.4826° East, -6.8087° South.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arawa. Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each 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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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. 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: 54 km S of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.
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