A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea on Sunday. 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 206.9 km (129 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/11/19 / 2019-11-17 00:16:24 / November 17, 2019 @ 12:16 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 10:16:24 / 10:16 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us70006brx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006brx. Exact location of event, longitude 152.1346 East, latitude -3.9887 South, depth = 206.9 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kokopo, Rabaul. Earthquake epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 23 km N of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.
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