Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 19 km NNE of Taron, Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Taron in Papua New Guinea on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.63 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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: 12/02/17 / 2017-02-12 09:16:52 / February 12, 2017 @ 9:16 am. Exact location of earthquake, 153.1055° East, -4.3096° South, depth 11.63 km. Unique identifier: us20008jbd. Ids that are associated to the event: us20008jbd. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:16:52 / 7:16 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo. Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 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 one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 19 km NNE of Taron, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	153.1055° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.3096° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.63 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19km NNE of Taron, 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	2017-02-12 09:16:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-02-12 10:03:55	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	369	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	0.946	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	120	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	us20008jbd	Id of event.
Event Code	20008jbd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008jbd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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