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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Panguna in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.5826S, 155.0188WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 155.0188 East, latitude -6.5826 South, depth = 95.44 km. 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: 13/03/16 / 2016-03-13 05:01:50 / March 13, 2016 @ 5:01 am. The temblor was detected at 16:01:50 / 4:01 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 95.44 km (59 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us20005af8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005af8.

The epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearby 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 Arawa.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 59 km WSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.0188° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.5826° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 95.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km WSW of Panguna, 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 2016-03-13 05:01:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-09 09:47:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 284 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 3.704 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 162 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 us20005af8 Id of event.
Event Code 20005af8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005af8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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