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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Lae in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.0771S, 147.2493WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Lae in Papua New Guinea on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 79.05 km (49 miles). Event id: us70007vy0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007vy0. The temblor was reported at 09:40:15 / 9:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 147.2493 East, latitude -6.0771 South, depth = 79.05 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 18/02/20 / 2020-02-18 23:40:15 / February 18, 2020 @ 11:40 pm UTC/GMT.

Close 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 Lae. Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop).

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 four and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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: 77 km NNE of Lae, 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 147.2493° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.0771° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 79.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km 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 2020-02-18 23:40:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-26 02:55:54 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 3.307 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us70007vy0 Id of event.
Event Code 70007vy0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007vy0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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