A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Taron in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was reported at 10:07:38 / 10:07 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 22/07/19 / 2019-07-22 00:07:38 / July 22, 2019 @ 12:07 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us60004xfm. Unique identifier: us60004xfm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 21.77 km (14 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 153.0116 East, latitude -4.1058 South, depth = 21.77 km.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 40 km N of Taron, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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