A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:00:06 / 2:00 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 151.6207 East, latitude -3.8521 South, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pjr1. Unique identifier: us6000pjr1. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/01/25 / 2025-01-01 02:00:06 / January 1, 2025 @ 2:00 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Epicenter of the event was 90 km (56 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo, Rabaul (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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: 71 km WNW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.
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