A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/10/18 / 2018-10-05 05:55:56 / October 5, 2018 @ 5:55 am. The temblor was picked up at 16:55:56 / 4:55 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 155.7433 East, latitude -7.0113 South, depth = 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000han0. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000han0.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa. Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 81 km SSE of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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