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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 80 km NNE of Lae, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.0377S, 147.2496WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Lae in Papua New Guinea on Monday. Unique identifier: us6000p7k6. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000p7k6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 59.696 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/11/24 / 2024-11-25 10:46:03 / November 25, 2024 @ 10:46 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 10:46:03 / 10:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 147.2496° East, latitude -6.0377° South, depth = 59.696 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lae (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 80 km NNE of Lae, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.2496° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.0377° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.696 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80 km NNE 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 2024-11-25 10:46:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-25 13:36:47 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.346 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us6000p7k6 Id of event.
Event Code 6000p7k6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000p7k6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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