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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Kavieng in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on August 16, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -3.2799S, 150.0996WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 109 km SW of Kavieng, Papua New Guinea (68 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:40:40 / 9:40 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 150.0996° East, latitude -3.2799° South, depth = 29.9 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.9 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/07/16 / 2016-07-29 23:40:40 / July 29, 2016 @ 11:40 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100069rh. Id of event: us100069rh.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days 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. 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: 109 km SW of Kavieng, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 150.0996° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.2799° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 109km SW of Kavieng, 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 2016-07-29 23:40:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-16 04:10:24 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 2.249 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us100069rh Id of event.
Event Code 100069rh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100069rh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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