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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.1791S, 151.6296WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 115 km SW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea (71 miles) on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 09:01:38 / 9:01 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10005dvw. Event ids that are associated: us10005dvw. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 110.62 km (69 miles). Global time and date of event 25/04/16 / 2016-04-25 23:01:38 / April 25, 2016 @ 11:01 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 151.6296 East, latitude -5.1791 South, depth = 110.62 km.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days two hundred and nine 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. 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: 115 km SW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 151.6296° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.1791° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 110.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 115km SW 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 2016-04-25 23:01:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-20 04:58:32 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 312 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 0.952 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us10005dvw Id of event.
Event Code 10005dvw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005dvw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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