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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on March 23, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.1927S, 147.466WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 46.59 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 46.59 km, 147.466° East, -6.1927° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 02:24:30 / 2:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/03/20 / 2020-03-23 16:24:30 / March 23, 2020 @ 4:24 pm. Event id: us70008ekn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008ekn.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lae. Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 63 km NW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.466° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.1927° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km NW of Finschhafen, 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 2020-03-23 16:24:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-23 17:03:14 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 3.205 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us70008ekn Id of event.
Event Code 70008ekn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008ekn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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