A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Denman in Australia. Exact location of event, longitude 150.6915 East, latitude -32.3093 South, depth = 9.595 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000n95k. Id of event: us7000n95k. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.595 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 24/08/24 / 2024-08-24 06:31:38 / August 24, 2024 @ 6:31 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 06:31:38 / 6:31 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Maitland, Kurri Kurri, Cessnock. Nearby country/countries, Australia (c. 21 516 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Maitland (c. 67 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Cessnock (c. 16 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Singleton (c. 13 700 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Muswellbrook (c. 11 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Kurri Kurri (c. 5 600 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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: 8 km N of Denman, Australia.
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