A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Namatanai in Papua New Guinea on Tuesday. Unique identifier: us60003qlk. Ids that are associated to the event: us60003qlk. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/05/19 / 2019-05-14 13:17:08 / May 14, 2019 @ 1:17 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 152.5247 East, latitude -3.8404 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 23:17:08 / 11:17 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo, Rabaul (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 21 km SSE of Namatanai, Papua New Guinea.
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