A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 104 km SSE of Lorengau, Papua New Guinea (65 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 147.6299 East, latitude -2.8962 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 00:08:04 / 12:08 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000k77j. Unique identifier: us2000k77j. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/03/19 / 2019-03-23 14:08:04 / March 23, 2019 @ 2:08 pm.
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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: 104 km SSE of Lorengau, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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