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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Arawa in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on November 23, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -5.892S, 154.8336WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Arawa in Papua New Guinea on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:16:28 / 11:16 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 14/11/19 / 2019-11-14 00:16:28 / November 14, 2019 @ 12:16 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 154.8336 East, latitude -5.892 South, depth = 161.85 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006b32. Id of event: us70006b32. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 161.85 km (101 miles).

Event epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 85 km WNW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 154.8336° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.892° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 161.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85km WNW of Arawa, 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 2019-11-14 00:16:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-23 00:20:52 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 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 8.367 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 us70006b32 Id of event.
Event Code 70006b32 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006b32, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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