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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Rabaul in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -4.4601S, 151.4731WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 40.16 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000h3va. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000h3va. Global time and date of event 24/09/18 / 2018-09-24 00:49:46 / September 24, 2018 @ 12:49 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 10:49:46 / 10:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 40.16 km, 151.4731° East, -4.4601° South.

The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo, Rabaul (min 5000 pop).

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-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 82 km WSW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 151.4731° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.4601° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km WSW 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 2018-09-24 00:49:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-14 22:54:56 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 312 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 0.738 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 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 us1000h3va Id of event.
Event Code 1000h3va An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h3va, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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