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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -4.5697S, 153.4535WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 133 km E of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea (83 miles) on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 19/11/24 / 2024-11-19 03:11:16 / November 19, 2024 @ 3:11 am UTC/GMT. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:11:16 / 3:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 153.4535 East, latitude -4.5697 South, depth = 116.792 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 116.792 km (73 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000nsk0. Event ids that are associated: us7000nsk0.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 133 km E of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 153.4535° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.5697° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 116.792 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 133 km E 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 2024-11-19 03:11:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-22 02:26:18 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 7.879 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 155 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 us7000nsk0 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nsk0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nsk0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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