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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Rabaul in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -3.923S, 151.7954WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was detected at 07:00:30 / 7:00 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 272.16 km (169 miles). Exact location of event, depth 272.16 km, 151.7954° East, -3.923° South. Event id: us10008x49. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008x49. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/05/17 / 2017-05-26 21:00:30 / May 26, 2017 @ 9:00 pm UTC/GMT. 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 Kokopo, Rabaul. Epicenter of the event was 70 km (44 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 51 km NW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 151.7954° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.923° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 272.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km NW 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 2017-05-26 21:00:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-02 05:09:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 246 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 0.445 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 241 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 us10008x49 Id of event.
Event Code 10008x49 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008x49, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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