Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Lae in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Lae in Papua New Guinea on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 08/10/24 / 2024-10-08 21:52:41 / October 8, 2024 @ 9:52 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 21:52:41 / 9:52 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nntw. Id of event: us7000nntw. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55.335 km (34 miles). Exact location of event, depth 55.335 km, 147.426° East, -6.7033° South.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lae. Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 49 km (30 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-one 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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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 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: 47 km E of Lae, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	147.426° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.7033° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	55.335 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	47 km E of Lae, 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	2024-10-08 21:52:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-30 05:25:07	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	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.697	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.85 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	179	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	us7000nntw	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nntw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nntw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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