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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake strikes near Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on May 4, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.8481S, 147.8135WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (mg/mb) was reported Tuesday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was reported at 06:16:35 / 6:16 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 66.12 km (41 miles). Global time of event 04/05/15 / 2015-05-04 20:16:35 / May 4, 2015 @ 8:16 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 147.8135 East, latitude -6.8481 South, depth 66.12 km, unique identifier, us20002bbu.

Close countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lae.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.8135° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.8481° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km SSW of Finschhafen, 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 2015-05-04 20:16:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-05-04 22:37:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 340 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 2.621 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us20002bbu Id of event.
Event Code 20002bbu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002bbu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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