A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/06/17 / 2017-06-06 07:22:59 / June 6, 2017 @ 7:22 am. The temblor was detected at 17:22:59 / 5:22 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009kvy. Id of event: us20009kvy. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 71.26 km (44 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 147.7031° East, -6.2705° South, depth 71.26 km.
Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 94 km (58 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lae.
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 sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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