A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. Exact location, longitude 155.1686° East, latitude -6.7532° South, depth = 49.88 km. The temblor was detected at 11:54:42 / 11:54 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/01/18 / 2018-01-28 00:54:42 / January 28, 2018 @ 12:54 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000cyxd. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000cyxd. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 49.88 km (31 miles).
Event epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa. Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 59 km SW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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