A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Madang in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of event, depth 68.4 km, 145.2789° East, -4.6809° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/07/18 / 2018-07-19 22:58:29 / July 19, 2018 @ 10:58 pm. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:58:29 / 8:58 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 68.4 km (43 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000gcuy. Unique identifier: us2000gcuy.
Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Madang (c. 27 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Madang (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 83 km NW of Madang, Papua New Guinea.
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