2019 Kokopo earthquake
The epicentre lay about 45 km northeast of Kokopo, in East New Britain Province, at shallow depth off the island's northeastern coast. Contemporary bulletins gave the magnitude as 7.5, against 7.6 in the catalogue.
- Origin time (UTC)
- 2019-05-14T12:58
- Magnitude
- 7.6
- Magnitude type
- mww
- Depth (km)
- 10
- USGS event page
- earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us70003kyy
Category: Disasters & Incidents
Tags: papua new guinea, kokopo, east new britain, shallow
Coordinates: -4.051, 152.5967
Part of Earthquakes of magnitude 7.5 and above in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands since 1990
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