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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Kandrian in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -7.6183S, 150.4538WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 184 km SSE of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea (114 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us70009ppg. Ids that are associated to the event: us70009ppg. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 150.4538 East, latitude -7.6183 South, depth = 10 km. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:23:37 / 8:23 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/05/20 / 2020-05-24 22:23:37 / May 24, 2020 @ 10:23 pm.

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 four 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 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: 184 km SSE of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 150.4538° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.6183° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 184km SSE of Kandrian, 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 2020-05-24 22:23:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-24 22:42:57 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 3.71 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 us70009ppg Id of event.
Event Code 70009ppg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009ppg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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