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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Rabaul in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -3.9906S, 152.3002WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was reported at 15:02:58 / 3:02 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 178.15 km (111 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/02/20 / 2020-02-03 05:02:58 / February 3, 2020 @ 5:02 am. Event id: us60007n5g. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007n5g. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 152.3002° East, latitude -3.9906° South, depth = 178.15 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo, Rabaul (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 26 km NNE of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.3002° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.9906° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 178.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km NNE of Rabaul, 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 2020-02-03 05:02:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-03 06:06:11 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 354 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 0.241 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 us60007n5g Id of event.
Event Code 60007n5g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007n5g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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