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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.7731S, 150.778WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Kimbe in Papua New Guinea. Global time and date of event 05/07/19 / 2019-07-05 17:03:23 / July 5, 2019 @ 5:03 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:03:23 / 3:03 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 67.15 km (42 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70004kr2. Event ids that are associated: us70004kr2. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 150.778 East, latitude -5.7731 South, depth = 67.15 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kimbe. Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (46 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty-six 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 74 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 150.778° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.7731° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 67.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km ESE of Kimbe, 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 2019-07-05 17:03:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-03 21:40:58 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 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 2.091 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 155 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 us70004kr2 Id of event.
Event Code 70004kr2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004kr2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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