A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 152.5182° East, -4.6009° South, depth 10 km. The temblor was reported at 23:27:11 / 11:27 pm (local time epicenter). 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: us60003qm4. Unique identifier: us60003qm4. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/05/19 / 2019-05-14 13:27:11 / May 14, 2019 @ 1:27 pm.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Event epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 39 km SE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.
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