A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Taron in Papua New Guinea. The epicenter was at a depth of 63.27 km (39 miles). The temblor was picked up at 09:33:15 / 9:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 153.1481 East, latitude -4.6163 South, depth = 63.27 km. Unique identifier: us70003ff8. Ids that are associated to the event: us70003ff8. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 01/05/19 / 2019-05-01 23:33:15 / May 1, 2019 @ 11:33 pm UTC/GMT.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 102 km (64 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 20 km SE of Taron, Papua New Guinea.
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