A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:54:54 / 4:54 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 204.57 km (127 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 152.0975 East, latitude -4.0744 South, depth = 204.57 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700038si. Id of event: us700038si. Global time and date of event 18/04/19 / 2019-04-18 18:54:54 / April 18, 2019 @ 6:54 pm UTC/GMT.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kokopo, Rabaul. Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 36 km (22 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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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. 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: 15 km NNW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.
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