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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Lae in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.3922S, 147.253WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Lae in Papua New Guinea on Friday. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/03/17 / 2017-03-16 14:12:15 / March 16, 2017 @ 2:12 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 147.253 East, latitude -6.3922 South, depth = 82.33 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 82.33 km (51 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:12:15 / 12:12 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20008shl. Event ids that are associated: us20008shl. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lae (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 47 km NE of Lae, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.253° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.3922° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 82.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km NE of Lae, 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 2017-03-16 14:12:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-16 14:33:44 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 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 2.994 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us20008shl Id of event.
Event Code 20008shl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008shl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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