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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 42 km NW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.3058S, 147.6195WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 61.95 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:02:38 / 4:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/06/17 / 2017-06-13 18:02:38 / June 13, 2017 @ 6:02 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us20009m72. Event ids that are associated: us20009m72. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 147.6195 East, latitude -6.3058 South, depth = 61.95 km.

Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lae (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 42 km NW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.6195° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.3058° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km 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 2017-06-13 18:02:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-13 19:15:51 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 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 3.112 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us20009m72 Id of event.
Event Code 20009m72 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009m72, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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