A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Lae in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 146.7118 East, latitude -5.9861 South, depth = 54.77 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000ekcd. Unique identifier: us1000ekcd. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 21:53:09 / 9:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/06/18 / 2018-06-07 11:53:09 / June 7, 2018 @ 11:53 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 54.77 km (34 miles).
The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Kainantu (c. 8 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kainantu, Lae. 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 86 km NNW of Lae, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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