A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was detected at 23:46:16 / 11:46 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 155.1328 East, latitude -6.1888 South, depth = 152.68 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 152.68 km (95 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us70004n0u. Ids that are associated to the event: us70004n0u. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/07/19 / 2019-07-18 12:46:16 / July 18, 2019 @ 12:46 pm.
Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arawa.
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
Questions or comments?
Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 41 km WNW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.
Copyright © 2019 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.
Leave a Reply