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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Taron in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.7994S, 153.4931WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 155 km SSE of Taron, Papua New Guinea (96 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/12/16 / 2016-12-31 08:10:42 / December 31, 2016 @ 8:10 am. The temblor was reported at 18:10:42 / 6:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 44.51 km, 153.4931° East, -5.7994° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44.51 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us10007tya. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007tya. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days thirty-eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 155 km SSE of Taron, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 153.4931° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.7994° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 155km SSE 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 2016-12-31 08:10:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-26 13:55:16 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 2.075 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us10007tya Id of event.
Event Code 10007tya An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007tya, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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