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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.8914S, 151.509WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 155 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea (96 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 151.509 East, latitude -5.8914 South, depth = 70.17 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/06/15 / 2015-06-22 11:05:23 / June 22, 2015 @ 11:05 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002w00. Id of event: us20002w00. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 70.17 km (44 miles). The temblor was detected at 21:05:23 / 9:05 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 155 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 151.509° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.8914° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 155km ESE of Kimbe, 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 2015-06-22 11:05:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-11 06:34:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.81 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 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 us20002w00 Id of event.
Event Code 20002w00 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002w00, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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