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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 51 km NNW of Taron, Papua New Guinea

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Earthquake location -4.0199S, 152.9022WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Taron in Papua New Guinea on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 175.85 km (109 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700090tu. Id of event: us700090tu. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/04/20 / 2020-04-21 02:12:18 / April 21, 2020 @ 2:12 am. Exact location of event, longitude 152.9022 East, latitude -4.0199 South, depth = 175.85 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:12:18 / 12:12 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rabaul, Kokopo. The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventy-eight 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 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: 51 km NNW of Taron, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.9022° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.0199° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 175.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km NNW 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 2020-04-21 02:12:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-21 02:34:03 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 0.756 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 160 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 us700090tu Id of event.
Event Code 700090tu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700090tu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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