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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Namatanai in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -3.7648S, 152.3935WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Namatanai in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of earthquake, 152.3935° East, -3.7648° South, depth 12.23 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.23 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us60003qlp. Event ids that are associated: us60003qlp. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/05/19 / 2019-05-14 13:49:20 / May 14, 2019 @ 1:49 pm. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:49:20 / 11:49 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo, Rabaul (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (42 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days fourty-one 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km SSW of Namatanai, Papua New Guinea. This information 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 152.3935° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.7648° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SSW of Namatanai, 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 2019-05-14 13:49:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-22 19:29:24 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 0.481 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 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 us60003qlp Id of event.
Event Code 60003qlp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60003qlp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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