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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Panguna in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.3468S, 155.0271WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 83.85 km (52 miles). Event id: us2000jhel. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jhel. Exact location of event, depth 83.85 km, 155.0271° East, -6.3468° South. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/01/19 / 2019-01-30 12:40:56 / January 30, 2019 @ 12:40 pm. The temblor was picked up at 23:40:56 / 11:40 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). 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).

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 two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 50 km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.0271° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.3468° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 83.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km W 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 2019-01-30 12:40:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-01 08:11:03 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 340 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 3.565 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us2000jhel Id of event.
Event Code 2000jhel An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jhel, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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