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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Panguna in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.5727S, 154.9415WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000h54q. Unique identifier: us1000h54q. Global time and date of event 25/09/18 / 2018-09-25 16:40:20 / September 25, 2018 @ 4:40 pm UTC/GMT. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:40:20 / 2:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 80.15 km, 154.9415° East, -6.5727° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 80.15 km (50 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 66 km WSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This data 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 154.9415° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.5727° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 80.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km WSW 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 2018-09-25 16:40:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-02 15:57:32 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 3.639 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us1000h54q Id of event.
Event Code 1000h54q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h54q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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