A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jnfh. Unique identifier: us2000jnfh. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 124.36 km (77 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/02/19 / 2019-02-08 23:30:29 / February 8, 2019 @ 11:30 pm. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:30:29 / 9:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 152.0926 East, latitude -4.4342 South, depth = 124.36 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 21 km (13 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km WSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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