A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 83.85 km (52 miles). Event id: us2000jhel. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jhel. Exact location of event, depth 83.85 km, 155.0271° East, -6.3468° South. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/01/19 / 2019-01-30 12:40:56 / January 30, 2019 @ 12:40 pm. The temblor was picked up at 23:40:56 / 11:40 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa. Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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