Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was detected at 16:42:58 / 4:42 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007t19. Id of event: us10007t19. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 147.5543 East, latitude -6.2452 South, depth = 65.58 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/01/17 / 2017-01-13 06:42:58 / January 13, 2017 @ 6:42 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 65.58 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lae. Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 four and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 52 km NW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	147.5543° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.2452° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	65.58 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	52km 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	2017-01-13 06:42:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-13 08:09:34	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	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	3.163	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	89	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	us10007t19	Id of event.
Event Code	10007t19	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007t19,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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