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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 189 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.1469S, 151.7447WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 189 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea (117 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 151.7447 East, latitude -6.1469 South, depth = 17.01 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/02/16 / 2016-02-01 18:20:47 / February 1, 2016 @ 6:20 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 04:20:47 / 4:20 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.01 km (11 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004x4b. Id of event: us20004x4b.

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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 189 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 151.7447° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.1469° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 189km ESE of Kimbe, 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 2016-02-01 18:20:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-01 21:36:59 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 312 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 1.987 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 90 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 us20004x4b Id of event.
Event Code 20004x4b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004x4b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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