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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Madang in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.3685S, 145.6384WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Madang in Papua New Guinea. Global time and date of event 24/07/19 / 2019-07-24 09:02:57 / July 24, 2019 @ 9:02 am UTC/GMT. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:02:57 / 7:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 98.31 km, 145.6384° East, -5.3685° South. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 98.31 km (61 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us60004um0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60004um0. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). The epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Madang (c. 27 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Goroka (c. 18 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Goroka, Madang (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 23 km SW of Madang, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.6384° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.3685° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 98.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km SW of Madang, 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 2019-07-24 09:02:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-24 09:53:20 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 312 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 3.726 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us60004um0 Id of event.
Event Code 60004um0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004um0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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