A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 151.4017 East, latitude -4.222 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 01:50:00 / 1:50 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us700097p4. Unique identifier: us700097p4. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/04/20 / 2020-04-26 15:50:00 / April 26, 2020 @ 3:50 pm UTC/GMT.
The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 85 km W of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.
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