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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Angoram in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on December 18, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -3.6236S, 144.2893WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Angoram in Papua New Guinea. Exact location, longitude 144.2893° East, latitude -3.6236° South, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000craf. Unique identifier: us7000craf. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 18:56:40 / 6:56 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/12/20 / 2020-12-10 18:56:40 / December 10, 2020 @ 6:56 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wewak (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Wewak (c. 18 200 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 54 km NNE of Angoram, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.2893° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.6236° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54 km NNE of Angoram, 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 2020-12-10 18:56:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-18 16:05:47 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 3.45 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us7000craf Id of event.
Event Code 7000craf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000craf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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