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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.5332S, 150.7862WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Kimbe in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10008ja6. Unique identifier: us10008ja6. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/04/17 / 2017-04-13 20:04:46 / April 13, 2017 @ 8:04 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 150.7862° East, -5.5332° South, depth 91.37 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 91.37 km (57 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:04:46 / 6:04 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kimbe (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 71 km E of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 150.7862° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.5332° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 91.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km E of Kimbe, 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 2017-04-13 20:04:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-09 20:57:39 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 271 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 1.735 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us10008ja6 Id of event.
Event Code 10008ja6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008ja6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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