A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 155.7024 East, latitude -6.9409 South, depth = 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us2000kbvm. Event ids that are associated: us2000kbvm. The temblor was detected at 03:38:14 / 3:38 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/04/19 / 2019-04-07 16:38:14 / April 7, 2019 @ 4:38 pm.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (52 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 73 km SSE of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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