A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:25:18 / 3:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 147.6575 East, latitude -6.6834 South, depth = 35 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/07/24 / 2024-07-31 03:25:18 / July 31, 2024 @ 3:25 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000n7eg. Unique identifier: us7000n7eg.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lae. Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days thirty-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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 25 km WSW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea.
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