A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Aitape in Papua New Guinea. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/04/20 / 2020-04-01 07:49:09 / April 1, 2020 @ 7:49 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us70008k5m. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008k5m. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 142.4792° East, -3.2585° South, depth 57.52 km. The temblor was detected at 17:49:09 / 5:49 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 57.52 km (36 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aitape (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 17 km (11 miles) from Aitape (c. 5 500 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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