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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.6296S, 148.4687WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 126 km NNE of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea (78 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 148.4687 East, latitude -5.6296 South, depth = 165.01 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/06/17 / 2017-06-11 11:09:35 / June 11, 2017 @ 11:09 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 165.01 km (103 miles). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:09:35 / 9:09 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20009n0j. Event ids that are associated: us20009n0j.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 126 km NNE of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 148.4687° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.6296° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 165.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 126km NNE 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 2017-06-11 11:09:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-23 12:12:03 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 3.968 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 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 us20009n0j Id of event.
Event Code 20009n0j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009n0j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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