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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Rabaul in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on February 25, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -4.2764S, 151.8748WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 171.7 km (107 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/02/18 / 2018-02-11 16:49:47 / February 11, 2018 @ 4:49 pm. Id of earthquake: us2000d5xq. Event ids that are associated: us2000d5xq. The temblor was detected at 02:49:47 / 2:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 151.8748 East, latitude -4.2764 South, depth = 171.7 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo, Rabaul (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 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 five and in the last 365 days fourty-two 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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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. 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: 34 km WSW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 151.8748° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.2764° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 171.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km WSW of Rabaul, 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 2018-02-11 16:49:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-25 17:53:40 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 298 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 0.3 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us2000d5xq Id of event.
Event Code 2000d5xq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d5xq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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