Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Kimbe in Papua New Guinea. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 112.288 km (70 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000ng9d. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ng9d. The temblor was reported at 14:20:27 / 2:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 150.3637 East, latitude -5.6992 South, depth = 112.288 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/09/24 / 2024-09-16 14:20:27 / September 16, 2024 @ 2:20 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kimbe (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

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 three and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 29 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	150.3637° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.6992° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	112.288 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29 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	2024-09-16 14:20:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-26 15:42:32	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	312	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	34	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.158	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.98 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	81	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	us7000ng9d	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ng9d	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ng9d,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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