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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Lae in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.1766S, 147.1853WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Lae in Papua New Guinea. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:06:21 / 9:06 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/05/20 / 2020-05-27 23:06:21 / May 27, 2020 @ 11:06 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 89.24 km (55 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000a0lf. Unique identifier: us6000a0lf. Exact location of event, depth 89.24 km, 147.1853° East, -6.1766° South.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lae (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 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 three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.1853° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.1766° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 89.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km 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 2020-05-27 23:06:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-27 23:27:03 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 354 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 3.207 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us6000a0lf Id of event.
Event Code 6000a0lf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a0lf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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