A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Taron in Papua New Guinea. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70004n3f. Id of event: us70004n3f. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.51 km (30 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/07/19 / 2019-07-08 14:26:41 / July 8, 2019 @ 2:26 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 152.932 East, latitude -4.35 South, depth = 47.51 km. The temblor was detected at 00:26:41 / 12:26 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 five and in the last 365 days seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 17 km NW of Taron, Papua New Guinea.
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