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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 151 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.0746S, 151.4029WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 151 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea (94 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 56.86 km (35 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20003l5m. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003l5m. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:19:19 / 7:19 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/09/15 / 2015-09-18 09:19:19 / September 18, 2015 @ 9:19 am. Exact location of event, longitude 151.4029 East, latitude -6.0746 South, depth = 56.86 km.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 151 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 151.4029° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.0746° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 151km 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 2015-09-18 09:19:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-18 12:13:19 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 340 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 2.018 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us20003l5m Id of event.
Event Code 20003l5m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003l5m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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