A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Kimbe in Papua New Guinea. Exact location, longitude 150.3882° East, latitude -5.4354° South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/07/18 / 2018-07-19 18:44:57 / July 19, 2018 @ 6:44 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us2000gcun. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000gcun. The temblor was reported at 04:44:57 / 4:44 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kimbe. Event epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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-two 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 30 km ENE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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