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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -4.5167S, 152.4549WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea on Thursday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/09/19 / 2019-09-04 18:35:04 / September 4, 2019 @ 6:35 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005euj. Id of event: us70005euj. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 91.82 km (57 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:35:04 / 4:35 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 152.4549 East, latitude -4.5167 South, depth = 91.82 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 28 km (17 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 five and in the last 365 days one hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 27 km SE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.4549° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.5167° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 91.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km SE of Kokopo, 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 2019-09-04 18:35:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-12 22:02:50 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 259 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 0.434 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 220 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 us70005euj Id of event.
Event Code 70005euj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005euj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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