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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Kandrian in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.6687S, 149.4095WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Kandrian in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of event, depth 123.78 km, 149.4095° East, -5.6687° South. The epicenter was at a depth of 123.78 km (77 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/05/19 / 2019-05-28 22:43:15 / May 28, 2019 @ 10:43 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 08:43:15 / 8:43 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70003wb5. Unique identifier: us70003wb5.

Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kimbe (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-seven 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 62 km NNW of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 149.4095° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.6687° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 123.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km NNW of Kandrian, 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 2019-05-28 22:43:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-08 04:50:00 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 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 3.111 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us70003wb5 Id of event.
Event Code 70003wb5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003wb5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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