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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on July 26, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -5.8974S, 151.5249WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 157 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea (98 miles). The temblor was reported at 05:57:16 / 5:57 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 48.96 km (30 miles). Unique identifier: us20002zhn. Ids that are associated to the event: us20002zhn. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 151.5249 East, latitude -5.8974 South, depth = 48.96 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/07/15 / 2015-07-05 19:57:16 / July 5, 2015 @ 7:57 pm.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 157 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 151.5249° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.8974° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 157km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-05 19:57:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-26 18:16:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 271 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.81 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20002zhn Id of event.
Event Code 20002zhn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002zhn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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