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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 150 km WNW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.5884S, 154.3329WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 150 km WNW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea (93 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008utq. Id of event: us10008utq. The temblor was picked up at 20:15:16 / 8:15 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 127.24 km (79 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 154.3329° East, -5.5884° South, depth 127.24 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/05/17 / 2017-05-17 10:15:16 / May 17, 2017 @ 10:15 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and seven 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 150 km WNW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 154.3329° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.5884° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 127.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 150km WNW of Arawa, 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 2017-05-17 10:15:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-08 07:36:00 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 2.627 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 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 us10008utq Id of event.
Event Code 10008utq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008utq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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