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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.419S, 147.4225WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was reported at 06:09:55 / 6:09 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/12/18 / 2018-12-03 20:09:55 / December 3, 2018 @ 8:09 pm. Event id: us1000i1cj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000i1cj. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55.6 km (35 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 147.4225 East, latitude -6.419 South, depth = 55.6 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lae.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-four 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 53 km WNW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.4225° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.419° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km WNW 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 2018-12-03 20:09:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-03 22:45:27 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 369 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 2.977 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 us1000i1cj Id of event.
Event Code 1000i1cj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000i1cj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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