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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Panguna in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.8238S, 154.406WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 131 km WNW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea (81 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: 20/04/19 / 2019-04-20 01:04:09 / April 20, 2019 @ 1:04 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us700039g0. Unique identifier: us700039g0. Exact location of earthquake, 154.406° East, -5.8238° South, depth 398.39 km. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:04:09 / 11:04 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 398.39 km (248 miles).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 thirty-one 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 131 km WNW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 154.406° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.8238° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 398.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 131km WNW 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 2019-04-20 01:04:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-20 01:25:52 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 369 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 2.76 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 26 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 us700039g0 Id of event.
Event Code 700039g0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700039g0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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