A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 128 km WNW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea (80 miles) on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000db5l. Unique identifier: us1000db5l. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/03/18 / 2018-03-29 22:27:40 / March 29, 2018 @ 10:27 pm. The temblor was picked up at 08:27:40 / 8:27 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 23.61 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 151.1156 East, latitude -3.7257 South, depth = 23.61 km.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 128 km WNW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.
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