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

A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Kandrian in Papua New Guinea on Friday. Exact location, longitude 149.36° East, latitude -5.6469° South, depth = 160.789 km. Global time and date of event 11/10/24 / 2024-10-11 09:26:47 / October 11, 2024 @ 9:26 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ny1w. Id of event: us6000ny1w. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:26:47 / 9:26 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 160.789 km (100 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kimbe. Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 three and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 65 km NNW of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	149.36° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.6469° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	160.789 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	65 km NNW 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	2024-10-11 09:26:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-11 09:48:24	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	41	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.145	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.75 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	76	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	us6000ny1w	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ny1w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ny1w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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