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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Madang in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.332S, 145.7962WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Madang in Papua New Guinea on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude 145.7962 East, latitude -5.332 South, depth = 77.19 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000enk3. Id of event: us1000enk3. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:22:43 / 4:22 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 77.19 km (48 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/06/18 / 2018-06-11 18:22:43 / June 11, 2018 @ 6:22 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Goroka, Madang (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 12 km (7 miles) from Madang (c. 27 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Goroka (c. 18 500 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 11 km S of Madang, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.7962° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.332° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 77.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km S of Madang, 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 2018-06-11 18:22:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-11 19:47:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 370 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 3.623 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.33 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 us1000enk3 Id of event.
Event Code 1000enk3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000enk3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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