Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Rabaul in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 94 kilometers (58 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/10/24 / 2024-10-07 02:24:16 / October 7, 2024 @ 2:24 am. The temblor was picked up at 02:24:16 / 2:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 151.4494° East, -3.7278° South, depth 10 km. Unique identifier: us6000nx0y. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nx0y. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rabaul (min 5000 pop). 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 94 km WNW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	151.4494° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-3.7278° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	94 km WNW of Rabaul, 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	2024-10-07 02:24:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-07 23:07:28	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	326	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.848	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.57 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	104	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	us6000nx0y	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nx0y	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nx0y,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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