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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on March 2, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location -5.1447S, 150.7439WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Kimbe in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was detected at 14:35:11 / 2:35 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000ddwt. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ddwt. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/02/21 / 2021-02-26 14:35:11 / February 26, 2021 @ 2:35 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 207.16 km (129 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 150.7439 East, latitude -5.1447 South, depth = 207.16 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kimbe (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 80 km NE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 150.7439° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.1447° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 207.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80 km NE of Kimbe, 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 2021-02-26 14:35:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-03-02 12:36:06 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 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 1.702 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us7000ddwt Id of event.
Event Code 7000ddwt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ddwt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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