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

Posted by admin on February 28, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.0041S, 142.0705WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Kiunga in Papua New Guinea. Exact location, longitude 142.0705° East, latitude -6.0041° South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 22:17:17 / 10:17 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 28/02/18 / 2018-02-28 12:17:17 / February 28, 2018 @ 12:17 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us2000d949. Event ids that are associated: us2000d949.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kiunga (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Kiunga (c. 11 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 87 km E of Kiunga, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.0705° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.0041° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87km E of Kiunga, 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 2018-02-28 12:17:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-28 12:45:36 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 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 6.586 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us2000d949 Id of event.
Event Code 2000d949 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d949, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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