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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Lae in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.6133S, 146.9973WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Lae in Papua New Guinea on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, 146.9973° East, -6.6133° South, depth 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 12/07/19 / 2019-07-12 23:15:45 / July 12, 2019 @ 11:15 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:15:45 / 9:15 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70004jdd. Id of event: us70004jdd. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wau, Bulolo, Lae (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 12 km (8 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Bulolo (c. 16 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Wau (c. 14 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 12 km N of Lae, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.9973° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.6133° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km N 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 2019-07-12 23:15:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-12 23:59:04 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 298 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 8.209 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us70004jdd Id of event.
Event Code 70004jdd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004jdd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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