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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Arawa in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.9537S, 154.9664WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Arawa in Papua New Guinea. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 176.66 km (110 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us700038wx. Event ids that are associated: us700038wx. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 154.9664 East, latitude -5.9537 South, depth = 176.66 km. Global time and date of event 18/04/19 / 2019-04-18 21:05:02 / April 18, 2019 @ 9:05 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:05:02 / 8:05 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arawa (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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: 69 km WNW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 154.9664° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.9537° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 176.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km WNW of Arawa, 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 2019-04-18 21:05:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-18 21:20:01 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 369 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 3.295 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us700038wx Id of event.
Event Code 700038wx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700038wx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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