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


Earthquake location -3.2388S, 146.2141WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 178 km SW of Lorengau, Papua New Guinea (111 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us20005d5p. Unique identifier: us20005d5p. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 01:36:33 / 1:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/03/16 / 2016-03-29 15:36:33 / March 29, 2016 @ 3:36 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 146.2141° East, -3.2388° South, depth 10 km.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighteen 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 178 km SW of Lorengau, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.2141° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.2388° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 178km SW of Lorengau, 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 2016-03-29 15:36:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-29 19:43:35 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.653 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us20005d5p Id of event.
Event Code 20005d5p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005d5p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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