Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Aitape in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Aitape in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000d7pg. Id of event: us6000d7pg. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/01/21 / 2021-01-12 10:23:15 / January 12, 2021 @ 10:23 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.34 km (16 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:23:15 / 10:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 141.8801° East, latitude -2.8801° South, depth = 25.34 km.

Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Vanimo (c. 11 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Vanimo (c. 9 800 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Aitape (c. 5 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vanimo, Vanimo, Aitape.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 59 km WNW of Aitape, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.8801° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-2.8801° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25.34 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	59 km WNW of Aitape, 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	2021-01-12 10:23:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-01-12 11:36:45	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	312	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	5.543	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	66	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	us6000d7pg	Id of event.
Event Code	6000d7pg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000d7pg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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