A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 93 km WNW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea (58 miles). Event id: us70003cjd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003cjd. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/04/19 / 2019-04-19 01:30:51 / April 19, 2019 @ 1:30 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 12:30:51 / 12:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 154.6902° East, latitude -6.0247° South, depth = 209.16 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 209.16 km (130 miles).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 93 km WNW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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