A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:47:18 / 8:47 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000mp5w. Unique identifier: us7000mp5w. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 124.448 km (77 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 124.448 km, 155.8277° East, -6.7759° South. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/05/24 / 2024-05-31 08:47:18 / May 31, 2024 @ 8:47 am.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (44 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 63 km SE of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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