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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 82 km SSE of Panguna, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.9374S, 155.8981WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/01/21 / 2021-01-27 10:33:36 / January 27, 2021 @ 10:33 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000deew. Unique identifier: us6000deew. Exact location, longitude 155.8981° East, latitude -6.9374° South, depth = 79.56 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 79.56 km (49 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:33:36 / 10:33 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 90 km (56 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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: 82 km SSE of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.8981° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.9374° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 79.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82 km SSE of Panguna, 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 2021-01-27 10:33:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-21 13:39:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 271 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 4.61 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us6000deew Id of event.
Event Code 6000deew An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000deew, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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