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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Rabaul in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -4.4723S, 151.741WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/07/19 / 2019-07-16 13:24:10 / July 16, 2019 @ 1:24 pm. Id of earthquake: us60004uvs. Event ids that are associated: us60004uvs. Exact location of event, longitude 151.741 East, latitude -4.4723 South, depth = 132.06 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 132.06 km (82 miles). The temblor was reported at 23:24:10 / 11:24 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo, Rabaul. Epicenter of the event was 59 km (37 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventy-six 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 quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 56 km WSW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 151.741° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.4723° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 132.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km 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 2019-07-16 13:24:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-24 21:12:34 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 298 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 0.505 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us60004uvs Id of event.
Event Code 60004uvs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004uvs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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