A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 102 kilometers (63 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/07/19 / 2019-07-17 05:58:08 / July 17, 2019 @ 5:58 am. Event id: us70004m2d. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70004m2d. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 15:58:08 / 3:58 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 151.3517° East, -3.764° South.
Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul.
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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: 102 km WNW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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