Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Porgera in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Porgera in Papua New Guinea. Exact location, longitude 142.6915° East, latitude -5.9747° South, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/03/18 / 2018-03-17 14:21:20 / March 17, 2018 @ 2:21 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 00:21:20 / 12:21 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000d82g. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000d82g.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tari. Event epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty, in the last 10 days fifty-two, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 79 km SW of Porgera, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.6915° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.9747° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	79km SW 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	2018-03-17 14:21:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-15 16:26:20	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	5.587	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.31 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	us1000d82g	Id of event.
Event Code	1000d82g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000d82g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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