A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 116.23 km (72 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 08:44:01 / 8:44 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/03/20 / 2020-03-21 21:44:01 / March 21, 2020 @ 9:44 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 155.0618 East, latitude -6.1764 South, depth = 116.23 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70008h1q. Unique identifier: us70008h1q.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa. Epicenter of the earthquake was 53 km (33 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 49 km WNW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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