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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 89 km SE of Taron, Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on December 15, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -5.0847S, 153.5531WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 89 km SE of Taron, Papua New Guinea (55 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/11/19 / 2019-11-30 20:33:25 / November 30, 2019 @ 8:33 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 06:33:25 / 6:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 153.5531° East, latitude -5.0847° South, depth = 60.37 km. 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: us60006pfz. Id of event: us60006pfz. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60.37 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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: 89 km SE of Taron, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 153.5531° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.0847° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km 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 2019-11-30 20:33:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-15 05:19:17 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 1.644 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us60006pfz Id of event.
Event Code 60006pfz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006pfz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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