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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Goroka in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.8153S, 145.5998WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Goroka in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was picked up at 12:22:40 / 12:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/08/16 / 2016-08-17 02:22:40 / August 17, 2016 @ 2:22 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10006ebh. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006ebh. Exact location of event, depth 115.89 km, 145.5998° East, -5.8153° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 115.89 km (72 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Madang (c. 27 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Goroka (c. 18 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Kundiawa (c. 9 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Kainantu (c. 8 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kundiawa, Madang, Kainantu. Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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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. 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: 37 km NE of Goroka, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.5998° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.8153° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 115.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km NE of Goroka, 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 2016-08-17 02:22:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-17 02:42:11 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.14 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us10006ebh Id of event.
Event Code 10006ebh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006ebh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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