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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Arawa in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.1763S, 154.5034WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 162 km NW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea (101 miles). Unique identifier: us700059pu. Ids that are associated to the event: us700059pu. The temblor was picked up at 00:15:13 / 12:15 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 23/08/19 / 2019-08-23 13:15:13 / August 23, 2019 @ 1:15 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 154.5034° East, -5.1763° South, depth 155.17 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 155.17 km (96 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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: 162 km NW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 154.5034° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.1763° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 155.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 162km NW of Arawa, 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 2019-08-23 13:15:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-16 06:59:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 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 2.529 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us700059pu Id of event.
Event Code 700059pu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700059pu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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