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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Popondetta in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -8.1343S, 149.8021WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 183 km ENE of Popondetta, Papua New Guinea (114 miles). Unique identifier: us20003pf4. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003pf4. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 49.98 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/09/15 / 2015-09-27 02:42:01 / September 27, 2015 @ 2:42 am. The temblor was reported at 12:42:01 / 12:42 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 149.8021° East, latitude -8.1343° South, depth = 49.98 km.

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 183 km ENE of Popondetta, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 149.8021° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.1343° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 183km ENE of Popondetta, 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 2015-09-27 02:42:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-27 03:26:36 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 298 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 2.9 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us20003pf4 Id of event.
Event Code 20003pf4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003pf4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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