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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Mount Hagen in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.1021S, 144.4149WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Mount Hagen in Papua New Guinea on Tuesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/04/16 / 2016-04-05 00:32:36 / April 5, 2016 @ 12:32 am. Exact location, longitude 144.4149° East, latitude -5.1021° South, depth = 104.89 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 104.89 km (65 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005fhb. Id of event: us20005fhb. The temblor was reported at 10:32:36 / 10:32 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wabag, Mount Hagen. Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (54 miles) from Mount Hagen (c. 33 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Wabag (c. 4 000 pop).

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 86 km NNE of Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.4149° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.1021° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 104.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km NNE of Mount Hagen, 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 2016-04-05 00:32:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-05 01:01:52 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 326 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 8.883 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us20005fhb Id of event.
Event Code 20005fhb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005fhb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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