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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Panguna in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.5632S, 155.461WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. The epicenter was at a depth of 155.98 km (97 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 155.461 East, latitude -6.5632 South, depth = 155.98 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 07:05:53 / 7:05 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jin5. Id of event: us1000jin5. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/03/19 / 2019-03-10 20:05:53 / March 10, 2019 @ 8:05 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arawa (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 40 km (25 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop).

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 five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 27 km S of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.461° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.5632° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 155.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km 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 2019-03-10 20:05:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-08 16:26:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 326 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 4.04 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us1000jin5 Id of event.
Event Code 1000jin5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jin5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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