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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Panguna in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on March 8, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.4476S, 155.4956WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was reported at 07:44:40 / 7:44 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 137.72 km (86 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/03/17 / 2017-03-08 20:44:40 / March 8, 2017 @ 8:44 pm. Event id: us100087sf. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100087sf. Exact location of event, longitude 155.4956 East, latitude -6.4476 South, depth = 137.72 km.

The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arawa (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 nine, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 14 km S of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.4956° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.4476° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 137.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km S of Panguna, 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 2017-03-08 20:44:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-08 21:31:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 326 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 4.003 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us100087sf Id of event.
Event Code 100087sf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100087sf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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