A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Kimbe in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/06/18 / 2018-06-09 02:29:45 / June 9, 2018 @ 2:29 am. The temblor was reported at 12:29:45 / 12:29 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 150.3662 East, latitude -6.0083 South, depth = 35 km. Unique identifier: us1000elqs. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000elqs.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kimbe. The epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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