Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Arawa in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Arawa in Papua New Guinea on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 19/03/18 / 2018-03-19 19:08:26 / March 19, 2018 @ 7:08 pm UTC/GMT. 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 140.19 km (87 miles). Exact location, longitude 155.0309° East, latitude -5.8445° South, depth = 140.19 km. The temblor was detected at 06:08:26 / 6:08 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000d85j. Event ids that are associated: us1000d85j.

Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arawa (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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. 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: 69 km NW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	155.0309° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.8445° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	140.19 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	69km NW of Arawa, 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	2018-03-19 19:08:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-12 20:01:08	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	660	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	326	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	8.565	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.98 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	243	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	us1000d85j	Id of event.
Event Code	1000d85j	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000d85j,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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