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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Taron in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on December 22, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -5.3054S, 152.7025WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 99 km SSW of Taron, Papua New Guinea (62 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:36:52 / 5:36 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 152.7025 East, latitude -5.3054 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000iw8g. Id of event: us2000iw8g. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/12/18 / 2018-12-22 07:36:52 / December 22, 2018 @ 7:36 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 99 km SSW of Taron, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.7025° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.3054° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 99km 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 2018-12-22 07:36:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-22 08:29:25 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 340 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 1.23 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us2000iw8g Id of event.
Event Code 2000iw8g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000iw8g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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