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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Lae in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.9963S, 147.1775WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Lae in Papua New Guinea on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 58.52 km (36 miles). Exact location, longitude 147.1775° East, latitude -5.9963° South, depth = 58.52 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:10:21 / 12:10 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ghaz. Id of event: us2000ghaz. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/07/18 / 2018-07-25 14:10:21 / July 25, 2018 @ 2:10 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (52 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lae.

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

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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. 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: 83 km NNE of Lae, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.1775° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.9963° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km NNE 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 2018-07-25 14:10:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-12 05:29:25 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 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 3.386 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 150 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 us2000ghaz Id of event.
Event Code 2000ghaz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ghaz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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