A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea on Sunday. Exact location of event, longitude 151.3825 East, latitude -3.9414 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Rabaul in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 26/04/20 / 2020-04-26 13:43:57 / April 26, 2020 @ 1:43 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us60009crm. Ids that are associated to the event: us60009crm. The temblor was detected at 23:43:57 / 11:43 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo, Rabaul. Epicenter of the earthquake was 108 km (67 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.
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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. 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: 92 km WNW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.
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