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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Taron in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on October 12, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -5.3473S, 153.0202WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 97 km S of Taron, Papua New Guinea (60 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/10/15 / 2015-10-12 22:10:04 / October 12, 2015 @ 10:10 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 21.92 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us10003n4n. Event ids that are associated: us10003n4n. Exact location of event, longitude 153.0202 East, latitude -5.3473 South, depth = 21.92 km. The temblor was picked up at 08:10:04 / 8:10 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 three and in the last 365 days two hundred and two 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 97 km S of Taron, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 153.0202° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.3473° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 97km S of Taron, 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 2015-10-12 22:10:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-12 23:08:43 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 1.431 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 24 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 us10003n4n Id of event.
Event Code 10003n4n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003n4n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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