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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Lae in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.0273S, 147.0504WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Lae in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 60.558 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us6000mx9b. Event ids that are associated: us6000mx9b. Exact location of event, depth 60.558 km, 147.0504° East, -6.0273° South. Global time and date of event 01/05/24 / 2024-05-01 02:39:30 / May 1, 2024 @ 2:39 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 02:39:30 / 2:39 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lae (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 77 km N of Lae, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.0504° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.0273° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.558 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77 km 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 2024-05-01 02:39:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-09 04:46:31 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 246 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.357 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 153 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 us6000mx9b Id of event.
Event Code 6000mx9b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mx9b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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