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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Arawa in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.8521S, 154.9573WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Arawa in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was picked up at 22:36:52 / 10:36 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 181.5 km (113 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 154.9573 East, latitude -5.8521 South, depth = 181.5 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000augc. Id of event: us2000augc. Global time and date of event 23/09/17 / 2017-09-23 11:36:52 / September 23, 2017 @ 11:36 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa. Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 75 km WNW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 154.9573° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.8521° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 181.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km WNW of Arawa, 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 2017-09-23 11:36:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-26 06:10:56 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 326 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 3.235 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 202 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 us2000augc Id of event.
Event Code 2000augc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000augc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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