Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Vanimo in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Vanimo in Papua New Guinea on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.1397 East, latitude -2.5425 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/10/24 / 2024-10-28 00:22:52 / October 28, 2024 @ 12:22 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 00:22:52 / 12:22 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nrz6. Id of event: us7000nrz6.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Abepura, Jayapura, Vanimo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Jayapura (c. 134 900 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Abepura (c. 62 200 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Vanimo (c. 11 200 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Vanimo (c. 9 800 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 one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every 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: 23 km NW of Vanimo, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.1397° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-2.5425° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23 km NW of Vanimo, 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	2024-10-28 00:22:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-21 04:18:07	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	298	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	0.437	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	134	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	us7000nrz6	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nrz6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nrz6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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