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


Earthquake location -6.2048S, 147.5459WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of earthquake, 147.5459° East, -6.2048° South, depth 61.19 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 61.19 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:20:55 / 12:20 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/11/18 / 2018-11-06 14:20:55 / November 6, 2018 @ 2:20 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us2000i7h4. Event ids that are associated: us2000i7h4. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lae (min 5000 pop).

Every 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 56 km NW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.5459° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.2048° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km NW of Finschhafen, 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 2018-11-06 14:20:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-06 15:22:53 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 3.202 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us2000i7h4 Id of event.
Event Code 2000i7h4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000i7h4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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