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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Ambunti in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -4.2783S, 143.2703WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Ambunti in Papua New Guinea on Tuesday. The temblor was picked up at 01:18:12 / 1:18 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 90.94 km (57 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10003vyr. Event ids that are associated: us10003vyr. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/11/15 / 2015-11-09 15:18:12 / November 9, 2015 @ 3:18 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 143.2703 East, latitude -4.2783 South, depth = 90.94 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wewak (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Wewak (c. 18 200 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 one and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 47 km E of Ambunti, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.2703° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.2783° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 90.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km E of Ambunti, 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 2015-11-09 15:18:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-09 21:28:51 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 259 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 6.391 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us10003vyr Id of event.
Event Code 10003vyr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003vyr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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