A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Ambunti in Papua New Guinea. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/08/24 / 2024-08-13 19:16:56 / August 13, 2024 @ 7:16 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us6000njwl. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000njwl. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 143.1705° East, -4.2723° South, depth 88.093 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 88.093 km (55 miles). The temblor was picked up at 19:16:56 / 7:16 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wewak. Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Wewak (c. 18 200 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 39 km E of Ambunti, Papua New Guinea.
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