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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Namatanai in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -1.2681S, 153.1805WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 277 km NNE of Namatanai, Papua New Guinea (172 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/12/16 / 2016-12-25 01:46:42 / December 25, 2016 @ 1:46 am. The temblor was picked up at 11:46:42 / 11:46 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 332.76 km (207 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007ml3. Unique identifier: us10007ml3. Exact location of event, longitude 153.1805 East, latitude -1.2681 South, depth = 332.76 km.

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 one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 277 km NNE of Namatanai, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 153.1805° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.2681° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 332.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 277km NNE of Namatanai, 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 2016-12-25 01:46:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-19 01:21:17 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 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 3.076 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 182 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 us10007ml3 Id of event.
Event Code 10007ml3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007ml3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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