A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/03/20 / 2020-03-21 19:46:04 / March 21, 2020 @ 7:46 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 152.0429° East, latitude -4.2858° South, depth = 10 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:46:04 / 5:46 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70008h1m. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008h1m.
Event epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo, Rabaul (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 17 km SW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.
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