A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 152.0533 East, latitude -4.4059 South, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/03/20 / 2020-03-20 18:55:33 / March 20, 2020 @ 6:55 pm. Id of earthquake: us70008h0e. Event ids that are associated: us70008h0e. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 04:55:33 / 4:55 am (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 24 km (15 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop).
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 eight, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 24 km WSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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