A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 152.132 East, latitude -4.8676 South, depth = 103.32 km. The temblor was reported at 07:58:25 / 7:58 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 11/11/19 / 2019-11-11 21:58:25 / November 11, 2019 @ 9:58 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 103.32 km (64 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us700069yc. Unique identifier: us700069yc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Event epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 75 km (46 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 five and in the last 365 days one hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 58 km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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