A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of event, longitude 155.3278 East, latitude -6.6554 South, depth = 68.37 km. Unique identifier: us1000hei5. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hei5. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 68.37 km (42 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 16/10/18 / 2018-10-16 23:38:19 / October 16, 2018 @ 11:38 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 10:38:19 / 10:38 am (local time epicenter).
Earthquake epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arawa.
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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 41 km SSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.
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