Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Porgera in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 101 kilometers (63 miles) from Porgera in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was detected at 06:43:34 / 6:43 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 25/02/18 / 2018-02-25 20:43:34 / February 25, 2018 @ 8:43 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000dcyj. Event ids that are associated: us2000dcyj. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 142.3903° East, -5.8877° South.

Epicenter of the event was 60 km (37 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tari (min 5000 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 two hundred and four, in the last 10 days two hundred and four, in the past 30 days two hundred and four and in the last 365 days two hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.3903° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.8877° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	101km 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	2018-02-25 20:43:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-26 20:23:38	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	369	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	5.878	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.5 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	108	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	us2000dcyj	Id of event.
Event Code	2000dcyj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000dcyj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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