A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Kandrian in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 120.56 km (75 miles). Exact location, longitude 149.5078° East, latitude -5.8087° South, depth = 120.56 km. Global time and date of event 01/04/20 / 2020-04-01 02:49:45 / April 1, 2020 @ 2:49 am UTC/GMT. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:49:45 / 12:49 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70008qhb. Unique identifier: us70008qhb.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kimbe (min 5000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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-two 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.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 45 km N of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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