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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.2327S, 147.6688WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 54.39 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/08/17 / 2017-08-02 14:45:46 / August 2, 2017 @ 2:45 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us2000a3p7. Event ids that are associated: us2000a3p7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 147.6688 East, latitude -6.2327 South, depth = 54.39 km. The temblor was reported at 00:45:46 / 12:45 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lae (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 93 km (58 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty-nine 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 46 km NNW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.6688° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.2327° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km NNW 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 2017-08-02 14:45:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-03 05:58:01 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 3.191 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us2000a3p7 Id of event.
Event Code 2000a3p7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a3p7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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