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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Rabaul in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -4.0079S, 151.6778WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/05/19 / 2019-05-14 13:13:49 / May 14, 2019 @ 1:13 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:13:49 / 11:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 151.6778 East, latitude -4.0079 South, depth = 10 km. 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 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60003qlm. Id of event: us60003qlm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo, Rabaul (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 58 km WNW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea. This information 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 151.6778° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.0079° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km WNW 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 2019-05-14 13:13:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-22 14:17:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.2 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 372 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 0.517 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us60003qlm Id of event.
Event Code 60003qlm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60003qlm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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