Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 101 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 101 kilometers (63 miles) from Kimbe in Papua New Guinea. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/05/24 / 2024-05-01 23:49:20 / May 1, 2024 @ 11:49 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 42.343 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:49:20 / 11:49 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mx9x. Id of event: us6000mx9x. Exact location of earthquake, 151.0146° East, -5.805° South, depth 42.343 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kimbe (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 101 km (62 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. 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: 101 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	151.0146° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.805° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	42.343 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	101 km 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	2024-05-01 23:49:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-23 23:25:25	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	369	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	84	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.796	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	54	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	us6000mx9x	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mx9x	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mx9x,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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