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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -4.909S, 152.9262WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 96 km SE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea (60 miles). Event id: us7000nnty. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nnty. The temblor was detected at 17:57:52 / 5:57 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 55.019 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/10/24 / 2024-10-08 17:57:52 / October 8, 2024 @ 5:57 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 152.9262 East, latitude -4.909 South, depth = 55.019 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days twenty-eight 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: 96 km SE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.9262° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.909° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.019 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 96 km SE of Kokopo, 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 2024-10-08 17:57:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-30 15:04:56 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 259 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.042 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 191 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 us7000nnty Id of event.
Event Code 7000nnty An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nnty, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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