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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 36 km WSW of Namatanai, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -3.8145S, 152.1384WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Namatanai in Papua New Guinea on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 27/12/16 / 2016-12-27 13:25:25 / December 27, 2016 @ 1:25 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 152.1384° East, -3.8145° South. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:25:25 / 11:25 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10007t4p. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007t4p. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo, Rabaul (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 36 km WSW of Namatanai, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.1384° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.8145° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km WSW of Namatanai, 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 2016-12-27 13:25:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-25 14:19:39 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 326 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 0.374 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us10007t4p Id of event.
Event Code 10007t4p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007t4p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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