A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Kimbe in Papua New Guinea. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/05/24 / 2024-05-14 17:15:47 / May 14, 2024 @ 5:15 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 17:15:47 / 5:15 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000myk7. Event ids that are associated: us6000myk7. Exact location, longitude 150.1746° East, latitude -5.6353° South, depth = 109.876 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 109.876 km (68 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kimbe. Event epicenter was 10 km (6 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.
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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: 10 km SSE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea.
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