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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 54 km NNW of Madang, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -4.8002S, 145.5285WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Madang in Papua New Guinea. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/10/20 / 2020-10-23 23:08:54 / October 23, 2020 @ 11:08 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 145.5285 East, latitude -4.8002 South, depth = 48.38 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:08:54 / 11:08 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 48.38 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000ccd8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ccd8.

Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Madang (c. 27 400 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Madang (min 5000 pop).

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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 54 km NNW of Madang, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.5285° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.8002° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54 km NNW 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 2020-10-23 23:08:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-23 23:34:48 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 326 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 3.296 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us6000ccd8 Id of event.
Event Code 6000ccd8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ccd8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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