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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Arawa in Papua New Guinea

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Earthquake location -5.9497S, 154.7966WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Arawa in Papua New Guinea on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude 154.7966 East, latitude -5.9497 South, depth = 175.48 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000awng. Id of event: us2000awng. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/09/17 / 2017-09-20 11:58:07 / September 20, 2017 @ 11:58 am. The temblor was detected at 22:58:07 / 10:58 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 175.48 km (109 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 86 km WNW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 154.7966° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.9497° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 175.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km 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 2017-09-20 11:58:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-18 07:11:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 271 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 3.151 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 202 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 us2000awng Id of event.
Event Code 2000awng An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000awng, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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