A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea. Id of earthquake: us60003qmx. Event ids that are associated: us60003qmx. Exact location of earthquake, 152.3043° East, -4.5724° South, depth 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/05/19 / 2019-05-14 16:07:09 / May 14, 2019 @ 4:07 pm. The temblor was detected at 02:07:09 / 2:07 am (local time epicenter).
Earthquake epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-four, in the last 10 days thirty-four, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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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: 24 km S of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.
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