Light earthquake 4 mag, 193 km ENE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 193 km ENE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea (120 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000njmf. Unique identifier: us6000njmf. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 452.8 km (281 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 153.95 East, latitude -3.8833 South, depth = 452.8 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:02:14 / 2:02 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/07/24 / 2024-07-27 02:02:14 / July 27, 2024 @ 2:02 am.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 193 km ENE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	153.95° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-3.8833° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	452.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	193 km ENE of Kokopo, 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	2024-07-27 02:02:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-13 22:28:45	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	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	8.692	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	124	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	us6000njmf	Id of event.
Event Code	6000njmf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000njmf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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