Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near New Guinea, Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea kilometers (0 miles) from New Guinea, Papua New Guinea. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 20:35:13 / 8:35 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 25/02/18 / 2018-02-25 20:35:13 / February 25, 2018 @ 8:35 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us2000dcxk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000dcxk. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.6639 East, latitude -6.4414 South, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mount Hagen, Ialibu, Mendi. The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Mount Hagen (c. 33 600 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Ialibu (c. 6 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and sixty-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: New Guinea, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	143.6639° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.4414° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	New Guinea, 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	2018-02-25 20:35:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-26 20:05:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	7.484	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	122	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	us2000dcxk	Id of event.
Event Code	2000dcxk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000dcxk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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