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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 46 km SW of Kavieng, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -2.9059S, 150.5408WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Kavieng in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was detected at 05:50:00 / 5:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 150.5408 East, latitude -2.9059 South, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/05/19 / 2019-05-20 19:50:00 / May 20, 2019 @ 7:50 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us60003t5w. Unique identifier: us60003t5w. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kavieng (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Kavieng (c. 14 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 46 km SW of Kavieng, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 150.5408° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.9059° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km SW of Kavieng, 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 2019-05-20 19:50:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-05 14:20:52 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 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 2.062 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us60003t5w Id of event.
Event Code 60003t5w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60003t5w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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