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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.3468S, 147.5821WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000ddnp. Unique identifier: us6000ddnp. Exact location of event, longitude 147.5821 East, latitude -6.3468 South, depth = 43.47 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/01/21 / 2021-01-24 03:51:47 / January 24, 2021 @ 3:51 am. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:51:47 / 3:51 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.47 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lae (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 37 km NW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.5821° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.3468° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37 km 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 2021-01-24 03:51:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-03 02:31:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 3.066 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 us6000ddnp Id of event.
Event Code 6000ddnp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ddnp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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