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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 89 km S of Panguna, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -7.1236S, 155.4991WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, 155.4991° East, -7.1236° South, depth 10.93 km. The temblor was reported at 03:00:30 / 3:00 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20008u36. Ids that are associated to the event: us20008u36. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/03/17 / 2017-03-23 17:00:30 / March 23, 2017 @ 5:00 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10.93 km (7 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arawa. Event epicenter was 101 km (63 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearby 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 one, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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 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: 89 km S of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.4991° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.1236° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km 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 2017-03-23 17:00:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-23 17:59:29 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 4.416 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us20008u36 Id of event.
Event Code 20008u36 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008u36, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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