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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Kandrian in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.2382S, 149.1618WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 43 km W of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea (27 miles) on Monday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 72.42 km (45 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 149.1618 East, latitude -6.2382 South, depth = 72.42 km. The temblor was picked up at 09:38:51 / 9:38 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70004guh. Id of event: us70004guh. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/06/19 / 2019-06-30 23:38:51 / June 30, 2019 @ 11:38 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 43 km W of Kandrian, 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 149.1618° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.2382° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 72.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km W of Kandrian, 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 2019-06-30 23:38:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-13 03:51:36 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 3.615 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us70004guh Id of event.
Event Code 70004guh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004guh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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