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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Lorengau in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -3.0399S, 148.617WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 187 km SE of Lorengau, Papua New Guinea (116 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10004w3a. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004w3a. Exact location of earthquake, 148.617° East, -3.0399° South, depth 7.33 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.33 km (5 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/03/16 / 2016-03-04 07:07:04 / March 4, 2016 @ 7:07 am. The temblor was picked up at 17:07:04 / 5:07 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 187 km SE of Lorengau, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 148.617° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.0399° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 187km SE of Lorengau, 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 2016-03-04 07:07:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-24 13:09:42 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 1.594 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us10004w3a Id of event.
Event Code 10004w3a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004w3a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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