Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 42.156 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 01:01:40 / 1:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 147.4305° East, -6.4926° South, depth 42.156 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000myvi. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000myvi. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/24 / 2024-07-06 01:01:40 / July 6, 2024 @ 1:01 am.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lae (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days twenty-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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 46 km W of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	147.4305° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.4926° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	42.156 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46 km W 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	2024-07-06 01:01:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-17 05:06:27	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	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.906	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	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	us7000myvi	Id of event.
Event Code	7000myvi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000myvi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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