A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 197 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea (122 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us60009anr. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60009anr. The temblor was reported at 12:54:53 / 12:54 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 16/04/20 / 2020-04-16 02:54:53 / April 16, 2020 @ 2:54 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 151.8056 East, latitude -6.1979 South, depth = 10 km.
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 197 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea.
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