A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Kimbe in Papua New Guinea on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: us70006dv5. Unique identifier: us70006dv5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 127.92 km (79 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 127.92 km, 149.8469° East, -5.5305° South. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:17:53 / 5:17 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/11/19 / 2019-11-27 19:17:53 / November 27, 2019 @ 7:17 pm.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kimbe (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 33 km (20 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop). Nearby 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 three and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 32 km W of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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