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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Porgera in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.8774S, 142.551WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Porgera in Papua New Guinea. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/02/18 / 2018-02-27 15:29:01 / February 27, 2018 @ 3:29 pm. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:29:01 / 1:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 142.551° East, latitude -5.8774° South, depth = 9.5 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.5 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000d1i1. Id of event: us1000d1i1.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tari. Event epicenter was 43 km (26 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and two, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 85 km WSW of Porgera, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.551° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.8774° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85km WSW of Porgera, 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 2018-02-27 15:29:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-12 14:18:36 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 246 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 14.578 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 309 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 us1000d1i1 Id of event.
Event Code 1000d1i1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d1i1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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