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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Popondetta in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on March 27, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -8.6642S, 148.0766WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Popondetta in Papua New Guinea on Monday. The epicenter was at a depth of 112.45 km (70 miles). Exact location, longitude 148.0766° East, latitude -8.6642° South, depth = 112.45 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:16:35 / 1:16 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10004ud6. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004ud6. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/02/16 / 2016-02-28 15:16:35 / February 28, 2016 @ 3:16 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). The epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Popondetta (c. 28 200 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Kokoda (c. 6 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokoda, Popondetta.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 21 km WNW of Popondetta, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 148.0766° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.6642° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 112.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km WNW of Popondetta, 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 2016-02-28 15:16:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-27 19:05:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.166 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us10004ud6 Id of event.
Event Code 10004ud6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004ud6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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