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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 85 km S of Angoram, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -4.8298S, 144.1855WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Angoram in Papua New Guinea on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/12/15 / 2015-12-04 17:02:49 / December 4, 2015 @ 5:02 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 110.9 km (69 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 144.1855 East, latitude -4.8298 South, depth = 110.9 km. The temblor was picked up at 03:02:49 / 3:02 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us100043dy. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100043dy. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wabag (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Wabag (c. 4 000 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each 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: 85 km S of Angoram, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.1855° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.8298° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 110.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85km S of Angoram, 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 2015-12-04 17:02:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-04 17:20:59 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 354 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 4.212 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 us100043dy Id of event.
Event Code 100043dy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100043dy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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