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


Earthquake location -6.1485S, 149.6846WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Kandrian in Papua New Guinea on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:16:03 / 3:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/08/15 / 2015-08-28 05:16:03 / August 28, 2015 @ 5:16 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us20003hrw. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003hrw. The epicenter was at a depth of 41.45 km (26 miles). Exact location of event, depth 41.45 km, 149.6846° East, -6.1485° South.

Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kimbe (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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: 16 km ENE of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 149.6846° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.1485° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km ENE 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 2015-08-28 05:16:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-20 06:43:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 3.142 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us20003hrw Id of event.
Event Code 20003hrw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003hrw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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