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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Kandrian in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.213S, 150.169WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Kandrian in Papua New Guinea. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/11/18 / 2018-11-22 06:10:50 / November 22, 2018 @ 6:10 am UTC/GMT. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:10:50 / 4:10 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.54 km (24 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hxhm. Unique identifier: us1000hxhm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 150.169 East, latitude -6.213 South, depth = 38.54 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kimbe (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 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. 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 five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 68 km E of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 150.169° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.213° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km E of Kandrian, 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 2018-11-22 06:10:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-19 13:17:40 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 246 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 2.824 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 156 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 us1000hxhm Id of event.
Event Code 1000hxhm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hxhm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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