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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 95 km W of Mendi, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.2403S, 142.7863WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 95 kilometers (59 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea. Global time and date of event 21/03/18 / 2018-03-21 22:15:45 / March 21, 2018 @ 10:15 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us1000d793. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000d793. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.7863 East, latitude -6.2403 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 08:15:45 / 8:15 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tari (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 95 km W of Mendi, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.7863° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.2403° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 95km W of Mendi, 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 2018-03-21 22:15:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-21 22:32:34 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 7.678 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 213 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 us1000d793 Id of event.
Event Code 1000d793 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d793, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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