A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude 152.55 East, latitude -4.0877 South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us60003qme. Ids that are associated to the event: us60003qme. The temblor was picked up at 00:54:17 / 12:54 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/05/19 / 2019-05-14 14:54:17 / May 14, 2019 @ 2:54 pm.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-five, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 43 km NE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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