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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Namatanai in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -3.3413S, 151.7585WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 83 km WNW of Namatanai, Papua New Guinea (52 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 4.56 km (3 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:52:03 / 3:52 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us70009jqc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009jqc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/05/20 / 2020-05-11 17:52:03 / May 11, 2020 @ 5:52 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 151.7585 East, latitude -3.3413 South, depth = 4.56 km.

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 nine and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 83 km WNW of Namatanai, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 151.7585° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.3413° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km WNW of Namatanai, 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 2020-05-11 17:52:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-19 14:33:00 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 0.936 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us70009jqc Id of event.
Event Code 70009jqc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009jqc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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