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


Earthquake location -3.7286S, 151.8822WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/05/19 / 2019-05-14 20:09:33 / May 14, 2019 @ 8:09 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us70003l6p. Unique identifier: us70003l6p. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 151.8822 East, latitude -3.7286 South, depth = 12.17 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12.17 km (8 miles). The temblor was reported at 06:09:33 / 6:09 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo, Rabaul. Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 60 km NNW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 151.8822° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.7286° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km NNW of Rabaul, 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 2019-05-14 20:09:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-14 22:02:36 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 4.81 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us70003l6p Id of event.
Event Code 70003l6p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003l6p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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