A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Vanimo in Papua New Guinea. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us2000jcs0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jcs0. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 141.7756° East, latitude -2.7216° South, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/02/19 / 2019-02-03 13:26:07 / February 3, 2019 @ 1:26 pm. The temblor was detected at 23:26:07 / 11:26 pm (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aitape, Vanimo, Vanimo (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Vanimo (c. 11 200 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Vanimo (c. 9 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Aitape (c. 5 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.
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