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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Panguna in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.969S, 154.7474WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea on Monday. Exact location, longitude 154.7474° East, latitude -5.969° South, depth = 169.85 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000a074. Id of event: us2000a074. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 169.85 km (106 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/07/17 / 2017-07-23 23:26:52 / July 23, 2017 @ 11:26 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 10:26:52 / 10:26 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (57 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-eight 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 90 km WNW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 154.7474° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.969° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 169.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km WNW of Panguna, 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 2017-07-23 23:26:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-24 00:27:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 354 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 13.884 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us2000a074 Id of event.
Event Code 2000a074 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a074, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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