A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:51:05 / 5:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 147.444 East, latitude -6.1792 South, depth = 59.95 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: us70004dqj. Unique identifier: us70004dqj. The epicenter was at a depth of 59.95 km (37 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 07:51:05 / July 7, 2019 @ 7:51 am.
Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lae. Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each 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. 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: 66 km NW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea.
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