A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Namatanai in Papua New Guinea. All ids that are associated to the event: us60003qly. Unique identifier: us60003qly. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 152.4881 East, latitude -3.7583 South, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/05/19 / 2019-05-14 14:33:15 / May 14, 2019 @ 2:33 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 00:33:15 / 12:33 am (local time epicenter).
Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo, Rabaul (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-four, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days fifty 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.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km SSE of Namatanai, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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