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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Kandrian in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.1388S, 149.0991WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 50 km W of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea (31 miles) on Saturday. The temblor was picked up at 19:39:30 / 7:39 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 60.29 km (37 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/07/15 / 2015-07-04 09:39:30 / July 4, 2015 @ 9:39 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us20002z71. Event ids that are associated: us20002z71. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 149.0991 East, latitude -6.1388 South, depth = 60.29 km.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-five 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. 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: 50 km W of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 149.0991° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.1388° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km W of Kandrian, 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 2015-07-04 09:39:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-01 08:12:38 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 312 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 3.613 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us20002z71 Id of event.
Event Code 20002z71 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002z71, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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