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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Arawa in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on February 16, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -4.8035S, 155.0869WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 163 km NNW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea (101 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 155.0869 East, latitude -4.8035 South, depth = 22.61 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us20008hes. Unique identifier: us20008hes. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:03:42 / 5:03 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/01/17 / 2017-01-20 19:03:42 / January 20, 2017 @ 7:03 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 22.61 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 163 km NNW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.0869° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.8035° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 163km NNW of Arawa, 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 2017-01-20 19:03:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-16 19:21:30 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 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 2.977 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us20008hes Id of event.
Event Code 20008hes An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008hes, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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