A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Taron in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 152.6248 East, latitude -4.8065 South, depth = 62.65 km. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:44:03 / 6:44 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20003jsy. Unique identifier: us20003jsy. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/09/15 / 2015-09-15 20:44:03 / September 15, 2015 @ 8:44 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 62.65 km (39 miles).
Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul, Kokopo.
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 58 km SW of Taron, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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