A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of event, depth 65.52 km, 154.9591° East, -6.4865° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 65.52 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us70007vxl. Unique identifier: us70007vxl. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/02/20 / 2020-02-18 19:45:27 / February 18, 2020 @ 7:45 pm. The temblor was detected at 05:45:27 / 5:45 am (local time epicenter).
Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa (min 5000 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 61 km WSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.
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