A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Vanimo in Papua New Guinea on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/08/16 / 2016-08-07 16:40:45 / August 7, 2016 @ 4:40 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.1566 East, latitude -2.4442 South, depth = 10 km. 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 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:40:45 / 2:40 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10006byr. Event ids that are associated: us10006byr.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Abepura, Jayapura, Vanimo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 50 km (31 miles) from Jayapura (c. 134 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Abepura (c. 62 200 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Vanimo (c. 11 200 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Vanimo (c. 9 800 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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: 30 km NNW of Vanimo, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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