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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 36 km ESE of Kainantu, Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on March 31, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.3993S, 146.1744WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Kainantu in Papua New Guinea on Saturday. Event id: us1000dbt1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dbt1. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 125.31 km (78 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 146.1744° East, latitude -6.3993° South, depth = 125.31 km. Global time and date of event 31/03/18 / 2018-03-31 03:51:55 / March 31, 2018 @ 3:51 am UTC/GMT. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:51:55 / 1:51 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kainantu (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 36 km (23 miles) from Kainantu (c. 8 500 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 36 km ESE of Kainantu, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.1744° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.3993° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 125.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km ESE of Kainantu, 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 2018-03-31 03:51:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-31 12:20:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 285 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 3.141 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us1000dbt1 Id of event.
Event Code 1000dbt1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dbt1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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