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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Madang in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.062S, 145.4007WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Madang in Papua New Guinea. Global time and date of event 03/08/20 / 2020-08-03 02:35:20 / August 3, 2020 @ 2:35 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us6000b8i3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000b8i3. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 128.62 km (80 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 145.4007° East, -5.062° South, depth 128.62 km. The temblor was reported at 02:35:20 / 2:35 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Madang (c. 27 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Madang. Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eleven 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 46 km WNW of Madang, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.4007° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.062° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 128.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46 km WNW of Madang, 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 2020-08-03 02:35:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-03 03:15:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 3.583 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us6000b8i3 Id of event.
Event Code 6000b8i3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000b8i3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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