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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Rabaul in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on October 28, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -4.2441S, 152.0766WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea on Friday. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/10/16 / 2016-10-28 12:17:04 / October 28, 2016 @ 12:17 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us100072ma. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100072ma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 199.35 km (124 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 22:17:04 / 10:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 152.0766 East, latitude -4.2441 South, depth = 199.35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kokopo, Rabaul (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km WSW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.0766° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.2441° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 199.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km WSW of Rabaul, 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 2016-10-28 12:17:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-28 14:13:17 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 340 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 0.101 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us100072ma Id of event.
Event Code 100072ma An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100072ma, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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