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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Lae in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.984S, 146.7066WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Lae in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of event, depth 38.04 km, 146.7066° East, -5.984° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.04 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:58:14 / 12:58 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/06/18 / 2018-06-10 14:58:14 / June 10, 2018 @ 2:58 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000emr1. Unique identifier: us1000emr1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kainantu, Lae (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Kainantu (c. 8 500 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 87 km NNW of Lae, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.7066° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.984° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87km NNW of Lae, 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 2018-06-10 14:58:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-10 15:57:21 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 3.969 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 56 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 us1000emr1 Id of event.
Event Code 1000emr1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000emr1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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