A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Taron in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 00:25:05 / 12:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 152.9489° East, -4.2919° South. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/05/19 / 2019-05-14 14:25:05 / May 14, 2019 @ 2:25 pm. Unique identifier: us60003qlx. Ids that are associated to the event: us60003qlx.
Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 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 twenty-one, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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. 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 NNW of Taron, Papua New Guinea.
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