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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 160 km NW of Kavieng, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -1.4052S, 149.9382WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 160 km NW of Kavieng, Papua New Guinea (99 miles). The temblor was detected at 22:44:07 / 10:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 149.9382 East, latitude -1.4052 South, depth = 35 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Unique identifier: us2000a2p9. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000a2p9. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/07/17 / 2017-07-30 12:44:07 / July 30, 2017 @ 12:44 pm.

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 160 km NW of Kavieng, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 149.9382° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.4052° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 160km NW of Kavieng, 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 2017-07-30 12:44:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-30 13:16:16 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 11.702 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us2000a2p9 Id of event.
Event Code 2000a2p9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a2p9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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