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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Panguna in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.9625S, 155.7534WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 155.7534 East, latitude -6.9625 South, depth = 80.37 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/07/16 / 2016-07-30 13:31:59 / July 30, 2016 @ 1:31 pm. The temblor was picked up at 00:31:59 / 12:31 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 80.37 km (50 miles). Event id: us100068rw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100068rw.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arawa.

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 thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 77 km SSE of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.7534° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.9625° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 80.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km SSE of Panguna, 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 2016-07-30 13:31:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-30 13:49:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 369 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 4.51 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 us100068rw Id of event.
Event Code 100068rw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100068rw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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