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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near New Guinea, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.0587S, 142.5543WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea kilometers (0 miles) from New Guinea, Papua New Guinea. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 00:03:55 / 12:03 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000d7si. Unique identifier: us1000d7si. Exact location of earthquake, 142.5543° East, -6.0587° South, depth 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/03/18 / 2018-03-23 00:03:55 / March 23, 2018 @ 12:03 am.

Epicenter of the event was 46 km (28 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tari (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: New Guinea, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.5543° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.0587° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place New Guinea, 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 2018-03-23 00:03:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-23 00:26:32 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 271 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 7.872 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 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 us1000d7si Id of event.
Event Code 1000d7si An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d7si, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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