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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Taron in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on June 14, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -5.2547S, 153.6501WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 110 km SE of Taron, Papua New Guinea (68 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/06/19 / 2019-06-14 01:12:10 / June 14, 2019 @ 1:12 am. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:12:10 / 11:12 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us600040jn. Unique identifier: us600040jn. The epicenter was at a depth of 49.1 km (31 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 153.6501 East, latitude -5.2547 South, depth = 49.1 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 110 km SE of Taron, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 153.6501° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.2547° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 110km SE 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 2019-06-14 01:12:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-14 01:38:16 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 1.819 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us600040jn Id of event.
Event Code 600040jn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600040jn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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