A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea on Friday. Unique identifier: us60007piy. Ids that are associated to the event: us60007piy. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/01/20 / 2020-01-24 03:10:31 / January 24, 2020 @ 3:10 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 13:10:31 / 1:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 155.1851 East, latitude -6.9809 South, depth = 10 km.
The epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa. Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-one 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. Every 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: 80 km SSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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