A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60006pad. Id of event: us60006pad. The temblor was reported at 15:45:58 / 3:45 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 37.74 km (23 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 154.922° East, -6.2586° South, depth 37.74 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/11/19 / 2019-11-26 04:45:58 / November 26, 2019 @ 4:45 am.
Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 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).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 62 km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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