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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Popondetta in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -8.6406S, 148.1134WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Popondetta in Papua New Guinea on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 111.01 km (69 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/04/20 / 2020-04-10 19:26:45 / April 10, 2020 @ 7:26 pm. Exact location of event, depth 111.01 km, 148.1134° East, -8.6406° South. The temblor was picked up at 05:26:45 / 5:26 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70008tfp. Unique identifier: us70008tfp.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kokoda, Popondetta. Epicenter of the earthquake was 19 km (12 miles) from Popondetta (c. 28 200 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Kokoda (c. 6 200 pop).

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

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 19 km NW of Popondetta, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 148.1134° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.6406° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 111.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km NW of Popondetta, 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 2020-04-10 19:26:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-10 21:19:55 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 1.209 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us70008tfp Id of event.
Event Code 70008tfp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008tfp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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