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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Namatanai in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -3.5111S, 151.6714WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Namatanai in Papua New Guinea. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/12/17 / 2017-12-29 03:41:45 / December 29, 2017 @ 3:41 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 64.06 km (40 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000bxgx. Unique identifier: us1000bxgx. The temblor was picked up at 13:41:45 / 1:41 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 151.6714° East, latitude -3.5111° South, depth = 64.06 km.

Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul. Event epicenter was 94 km (59 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 86 km WNW of Namatanai, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 151.6714° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.5111° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km WNW 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 2017-12-29 03:41:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-29 04:07:46 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 312 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 4.54 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us1000bxgx Id of event.
Event Code 1000bxgx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bxgx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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