A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Kandrian in Papua New Guinea. Exact location, longitude 149.8372° East, latitude -6.291° South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:29:56 / 7:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/02/19 / 2019-02-07 09:29:56 / February 7, 2019 @ 9:29 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us2000jep5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jep5.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kimbe (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 89 km (55 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 two and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. 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: 32 km ESE of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea.
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