A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:19:41 / 7:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 152.6973 East, latitude -4.0422 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000n7f2. Unique identifier: us7000n7f2. Global time and date of event 31/07/24 / 2024-07-31 19:19:41 / July 31, 2024 @ 7:19 pm UTC/GMT.
Event epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul, Kokopo. Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 58 km NE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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