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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Madang in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.247S, 147.0706WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 141 km E of Madang, Papua New Guinea (88 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004ups. Id of event: us10004ups. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 147.0706° East, -5.247° South, depth 224.83 km. Global time and date of event 01/03/16 / 2016-03-01 16:02:43 / March 1, 2016 @ 4:02 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:02:43 / 2:02 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 224.83 km (140 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 141 km E of Madang, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.0706° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.247° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 224.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 141km E of Madang, 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 2016-03-01 16:02:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-30 16:27:42 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 259 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 4.131 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us10004ups Id of event.
Event Code 10004ups An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004ups, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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