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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.3257S, 147.6417WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of event, longitude 147.6417 East, latitude -6.3257 South, depth = 105.51 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:03:35 / 4:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/11/16 / 2016-11-14 06:03:35 / November 14, 2016 @ 6:03 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 105.51 km (66 miles). Event id: us100077kq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100077kq.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lae. Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 39 km NW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.6417° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.3257° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 105.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km NW 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 2016-11-14 06:03:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-14 15:00:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 312 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 3.096 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us100077kq Id of event.
Event Code 100077kq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100077kq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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