A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 104 km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea (65 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j305. Id of event: us2000j305. Exact location of event, longitude 151.9664 East, latitude -5.2465 South, depth = 45.83 km. The temblor was picked up at 01:54:16 / 1:54 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 45.83 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/12/18 / 2018-12-24 15:54:16 / December 24, 2018 @ 3:54 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 104 km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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