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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 81 km S of Panguna, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -7.0486S, 155.5103WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 155.5103° East, -7.0486° South, depth 103.057 km. The temblor was detected at 03:50:24 / 3:50 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 13/10/24 / 2024-10-13 03:50:24 / October 13, 2024 @ 3:50 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us6000nydp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nydp. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 103.057 km (64 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arawa (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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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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. 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: 81 km S of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.5103° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.0486° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 103.057 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81 km S 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 2024-10-13 03:50:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-13 04:43:25 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 298 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.376 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us6000nydp Id of event.
Event Code 6000nydp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nydp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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