A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/05/19 / 2019-05-14 20:09:33 / May 14, 2019 @ 8:09 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us70003l6p. Unique identifier: us70003l6p. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 151.8822 East, latitude -3.7286 South, depth = 12.17 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12.17 km (8 miles). The temblor was reported at 06:09:33 / 6:09 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo, Rabaul. Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 60 km NNW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.
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