Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/03/16 / 2016-03-24 23:22:33 / March 24, 2016 @ 11:22 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:22:33 / 9:22 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 12.73 km (8 miles). Unique identifier: us20005dez. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005dez. Exact location of event, depth 12.73 km, 152.3672° East, -4.6595° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 36 km (22 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 35 km SSE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	152.3672° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.6595° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.73 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35km SSE of Kokopo, 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	2016-03-24 23:22:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-02 04:32:47	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	0.488	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.49 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	64	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	us20005dez	Id of event.
Event Code	20005dez	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005dez,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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