Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was picked up at 17:30:43 / 5:30 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us100087nd. Ids that are associated to the event: us100087nd. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/03/17 / 2017-03-08 07:30:43 / March 8, 2017 @ 7:30 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 55.17 km (34 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 147.5833° East, -6.2976° South, depth 55.17 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lae (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

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 three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 46 km NW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	147.5833° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.2976° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	55.17 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46km 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	2017-03-08 07:30:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-08 07:47:29	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	3.115	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	105	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	us100087nd	Id of event.
Event Code	100087nd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100087nd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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