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


Earthquake location -6.4167S, 147.5893WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was picked up at 04:17:40 / 4:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/02/17 / 2017-02-07 18:17:40 / February 7, 2017 @ 6:17 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 95.88 km (60 miles). Exact location of event, depth 95.88 km, 147.5893° East, -6.4167° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008kje. Id of event: us20008kje.

The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lae.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 37 km NW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.5893° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.4167° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 95.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km 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 2017-02-07 18:17:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-28 22:56:02 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 2.999 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 142 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 us20008kje Id of event.
Event Code 20008kje An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008kje, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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