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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Arawa in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.8501S, 155.0442WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Arawa in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was reported at 17:32:14 / 5:32 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 170.13 km (106 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/03/17 / 2017-03-04 06:32:14 / March 4, 2017 @ 6:32 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us10008894. Unique identifier: us10008894. Exact location of earthquake, 155.0442° East, -5.8501° South, depth 170.13 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arawa. Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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: 67 km NW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.0442° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.8501° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 170.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km NW 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 2017-03-04 06:32:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-18 12:14:34 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 271 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 3.309 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us10008894 Id of event.
Event Code 10008894 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008894, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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