Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of event, longitude 147.6417 East, latitude -6.3257 South, depth = 105.51 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:03:35 / 4:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/11/16 / 2016-11-14 06:03:35 / November 14, 2016 @ 6:03 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 105.51 km (66 miles). Event id: us100077kq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100077kq.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lae. Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 39 km NW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	147.6417° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.3257° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	105.51 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	39km NW 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	2016-11-14 06:03:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-14 15:00:46	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	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	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	3.096	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	106	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	us100077kq	Id of event.
Event Code	100077kq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100077kq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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