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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Vanimo in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -2.7543S, 141.5514WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Vanimo in Papua New Guinea on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 23:47:13 / 11:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 141.5514° East, latitude -2.7543° South, depth = 24.812 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.812 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mriz. Id of event: us7000mriz. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/06/24 / 2024-06-03 23:47:13 / June 3, 2024 @ 11:47 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 29 km (18 miles) from Vanimo (c. 11 200 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Vanimo (c. 9 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vanimo, Vanimo. Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 28 km ESE of Vanimo, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.5514° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.7543° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.812 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km ESE of Vanimo, 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 2024-06-03 23:47:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-14 04:05:47 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 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.88 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us7000mriz Id of event.
Event Code 7000mriz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mriz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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