A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Taron in Papua New Guinea on Saturday. Exact location, longitude 152.909° East, latitude -4.1269° South, depth = 35 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:30:38 / 2:30 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70006x0l. Event ids that are associated: us70006x0l. Global time and date of event 21/12/19 / 2019-12-21 04:30:38 / December 21, 2019 @ 4:30 am UTC/GMT.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 40 km NNW of Taron, Papua New Guinea.
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