Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000nvhq. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nvhq. Global time and date of event 16/11/24 / 2024-11-16 20:14:42 / November 16, 2024 @ 8:14 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 20:14:42 / 8:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 147.4989 East, latitude -6.6582 South, depth = 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 57 km (36 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lae. Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 39 km WSW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	147.4989° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.6582° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	39 km WSW of Finschhafen, 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	2024-11-16 20:14:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-05 04:13:37	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	259	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.749	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	197	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	us7000nvhq	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nvhq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nvhq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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