A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Lae in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was picked up at 06:28:00 / 6:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/07/18 / 2018-07-01 20:28:00 / July 1, 2018 @ 8:28 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 99.82 km (62 miles). Unique identifier: us2000fyau. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000fyau. Exact location of event, depth 99.82 km, 147.274° East, -5.9909° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lae. Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 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 sixty-eight 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. 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: 86 km NNE of Lae, Papua New Guinea.
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