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


Earthquake location -6.4594S, 152.3523WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 232 km SSW of Taron, Papua New Guinea (144 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50.12 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 152.3523° East, latitude -6.4594° South, depth = 50.12 km. Global time and date of event 22/10/18 / 2018-10-22 12:36:01 / October 22, 2018 @ 12:36 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us1000hh2x. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hh2x. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:36:01 / 10:36 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 232 km SSW of Taron, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.3523° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.4594° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 232km SSW 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 2018-10-22 12:36:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-02 06:02:53 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 2.261 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 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 us1000hh2x Id of event.
Event Code 1000hh2x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hh2x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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