A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of event, longitude 151.5385 East, latitude -3.6993 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Rabaul in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us60004wni. Unique identifier: us60004wni. Global time and date of event 28/07/19 / 2019-07-28 03:19:20 / July 28, 2019 @ 3:19 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 13:19:20 / 1:19 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo, Rabaul (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 108 km (67 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 89 km NW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.
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