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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Namatanai in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -3.7877S, 152.1543WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Namatanai in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was reported at 00:30:42 / 12:30 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 152.1543° East, -3.7877° South, depth 16.65 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.65 km (10 miles). Event id: us10007t4s. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007t4s. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/12/16 / 2016-12-27 14:30:42 / December 27, 2016 @ 2:30 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo, Rabaul (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

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 five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. 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: 33 km WSW of Namatanai, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.1543° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.7877° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km 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 14:30:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-25 15:25:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 0.4 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 154 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 us10007t4s Id of event.
Event Code 10007t4s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007t4s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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