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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Kainantu in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on October 21, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.3505S, 145.7136WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Kainantu in Papua New Guinea. Id of earthquake: us20007fyf. Event ids that are associated: us20007fyf. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/10/16 / 2016-10-21 16:41:11 / October 21, 2016 @ 4:41 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 127.11 km, 145.7136° East, -6.3505° South. The temblor was picked up at 02:41:11 / 2:41 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 127.11 km (79 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kundiawa, Goroka, Kainantu. Epicenter of the earthquake was 47 km (29 miles) from Goroka (c. 18 500 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Kundiawa (c. 9 400 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Kainantu (c. 8 500 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 18 km WSW of Kainantu, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.7136° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.3505° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 127.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km WSW of Kainantu, 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 2016-10-21 16:41:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-21 17:06:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 369 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 3.355 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us20007fyf Id of event.
Event Code 20007fyf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007fyf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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