Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Madang in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Madang in Papua New Guinea on Friday. The temblor was detected at 14:02:35 / 2:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/07/24 / 2024-07-26 14:02:35 / July 26, 2024 @ 2:02 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000ng4k. Event ids that are associated: us6000ng4k. Exact location, longitude 145.9934° East, latitude -5.4751° South, depth = 87.065 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 87.065 km (54 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 35 km (22 miles) from Madang (c. 27 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Goroka (c. 18 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kainantu (c. 8 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Goroka, Kainantu, Madang (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 36 km SE of Madang, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	145.9934° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.4751° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	87.065 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	36 km SE of Madang, 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	2024-07-26 14:02:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-26 14:16:55	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	369	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	42	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.674	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	98	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	us6000ng4k	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ng4k	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ng4k,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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