A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was picked up at 07:58:10 / 7:58 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 110.57 km (69 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 155.3679 East, latitude -6.5608 South, depth = 110.57 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/06/18 / 2018-06-28 20:58:10 / June 28, 2018 @ 8:58 pm. Id of earthquake: us2000fx0y. Event ids that are associated: us2000fx0y.
Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 43 km (27 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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: 29 km SSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.
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