A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 193 km S of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea (120 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pwnq. Unique identifier: us7000pwnq. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 152.0918 East, latitude -6.0799 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 13:49:23 / 1:49 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/04/25 / 2025-04-18 13:49:23 / April 18, 2025 @ 1:49 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-seven, in the last 10 days seventy-three, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 193 km S of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.
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