A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007pv0. Unique identifier: us10007pv0. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 2.86 km, 155.2807° East, -6.3095° South. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.86 km (2 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/12/16 / 2016-12-18 12:20:17 / December 18, 2016 @ 12:20 pm. The temblor was detected at 23:20:17 / 11:20 pm (local time epicenter).
Earthquake epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arawa (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-three, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 22 km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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