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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Panguna in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.1764S, 155.0618WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 116.23 km (72 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 08:44:01 / 8:44 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/03/20 / 2020-03-21 21:44:01 / March 21, 2020 @ 9:44 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 155.0618 East, latitude -6.1764 South, depth = 116.23 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70008h1q. Unique identifier: us70008h1q.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa. Epicenter of the earthquake was 53 km (33 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 49 km WNW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.0618° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.1764° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 116.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km 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 2020-03-21 21:44:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-05 05:37:29 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 3.495 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us70008h1q Id of event.
Event Code 70008h1q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008h1q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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