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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on February 24, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -5.0213S, 152.4116WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea. Id of earthquake: us20008inu. Event ids that are associated: us20008inu. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 53.36 km (33 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 152.4116 East, latitude -5.0213 South, depth = 53.36 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:56:11 / 10:56 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/01/17 / 2017-01-25 12:56:11 / January 25, 2017 @ 12:56 pm.

The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul, Kokopo. Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 75 km SSE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.4116° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.0213° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km SSE of Kokopo, 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 2017-01-25 12:56:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-24 07:08:28 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 0.807 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 153 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 us20008inu Id of event.
Event Code 20008inu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008inu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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