A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Namatanai in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of earthquake, 152.8493° East, -3.9688° South, depth 10 km. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:30:45 / 12:30 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us60003qlv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60003qlv. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/05/19 / 2019-05-14 14:30:45 / May 14, 2019 @ 2:30 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 57 km SE of Namatanai, Papua New Guinea.
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