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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Taron in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on February 24, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -4.2271S, 152.8818WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Taron in Papua New Guinea. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/02/17 / 2017-02-10 22:40:45 / February 10, 2017 @ 10:40 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 152.8818 East, latitude -4.2271 South, depth = 51.15 km. Id of earthquake: us20008lf0. Event ids that are associated: us20008lf0. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 51.15 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 08:40:45 / 8:40 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (43 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 31 km NNW of Taron, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.8818° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.2271° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km NNW of Taron, 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 2017-02-10 22:40:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-24 05:28:20 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 246 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 0.717 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 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 us20008lf0 Id of event.
Event Code 20008lf0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008lf0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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