Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Rabaul in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. Id of earthquake: us100034z8. Event ids that are associated: us100034z8. Exact location of event, depth 44.81 km, 152.5511° East, -4.0538° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 18:58:59 / 6:58 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/08/15 / 2015-08-26 08:58:59 / August 26, 2015 @ 8:58 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44.81 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo, Rabaul. Epicenter of the earthquake was 46 km (29 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 44 km ENE of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	152.5511° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.0538° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	44.81 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44km ENE of Rabaul, 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	2015-08-26 08:58:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-26 09:24:03	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	369	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	0.409	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.75 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	56	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	us100034z8	Id of event.
Event Code	100034z8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100034z8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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