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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 43 km SW of Taron, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -4.7098S, 152.7285WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Taron in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was reported at 21:14:03 / 9:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/12/16 / 2016-12-25 11:14:03 / December 25, 2016 @ 11:14 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 152.7285 East, latitude -4.7098 South, depth = 119.6 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 119.6 km (74 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10007stq. Unique identifier: us10007stq. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 four, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 43 km SW of Taron, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.7285° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.7098° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 119.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km SW 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 2016-12-25 11:14:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-15 11:01:17 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 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 0.763 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 191 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 us10007stq Id of event.
Event Code 10007stq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007stq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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