Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Madang in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Madang in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us200064st. Event ids that are associated: us200064st. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/06/16 / 2016-06-10 23:12:42 / June 10, 2016 @ 11:12 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 09:12:42 / 9:12 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 70.17 km (44 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 146.4612 East, latitude -5.5807 South, depth = 70.17 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Madang (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Madang (c. 27 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 83 km ESE of Madang, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	146.4612° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.5807° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	70.17 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	83km ESE of Madang, 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	2016-06-10 23:12:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-26 00:19:04	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	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	3.861	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	128	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	us200064st	Id of event.
Event Code	200064st	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200064st,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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