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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 50 km WNW of Namatanai, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -3.4467S, 152.0303WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Namatanai in Papua New Guinea. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:13:12 / 4:13 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10007378. Event ids that are associated: us10007378. The epicenter was at a depth of 350.73 km (218 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 152.0303 East, latitude -3.4467 South, depth = 350.73 km. Global time and date of event 31/10/16 / 2016-10-31 06:13:12 / October 31, 2016 @ 6:13 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearby 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 Rabaul.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-six 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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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: 50 km WNW of Namatanai, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.0303° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.4467° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 350.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km WNW of Namatanai, 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 2016-10-31 06:13:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-31 07:21:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 0.751 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 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 us10007378 Id of event.
Event Code 10007378 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007378, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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