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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Arawa in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.8384S, 154.7862WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 92 km WNW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea (57 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 22/01/17 / 2017-01-22 06:23:10 / January 22, 2017 @ 6:23 am UTC/GMT. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:23:10 / 5:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 154.7862° East, -5.8384° South, depth 154.57 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 154.57 km (96 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008i4l. Id of event: us20008i4l.

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

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 92 km WNW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 154.7862° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.8384° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 154.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 92km WNW of Arawa, 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 2017-01-22 06:23:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-19 13:37:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 246 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 3.082 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 179 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 us20008i4l Id of event.
Event Code 20008i4l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008i4l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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