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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 50 km E of Taron, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -4.4645S, 153.4912WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 50 km E of Taron, Papua New Guinea (31 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 114.17 km (71 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007rdl. Unique identifier: us10007rdl. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/12/16 / 2016-12-19 21:13:10 / December 19, 2016 @ 9:13 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:13:10 / 7:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 153.4912° East, latitude -4.4645° South, depth = 114.17 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days eighty-nine 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 50 km E of Taron, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 153.4912° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.4645° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 114.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km E of Taron, 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 2016-12-19 21:13:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-10 03:41:36 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 1.351 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 261 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 us10007rdl Id of event.
Event Code 10007rdl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007rdl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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