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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Ambunti in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -4.304S, 141.6003WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 138 km W of Ambunti, Papua New Guinea (86 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:17:32 / 8:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/07/16 / 2016-07-07 22:17:32 / July 7, 2016 @ 10:17 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 63.3 km (39 miles). Id of earthquake: us100061r5. Event ids that are associated: us100061r5. Exact location of event, longitude 141.6003 East, latitude -4.304 South, depth = 63.3 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 138 km W of Ambunti, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.6003° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.304° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 138km W 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 2016-07-07 22:17:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-07 22:45:26 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 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 6.179 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us100061r5 Id of event.
Event Code 100061r5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100061r5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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