Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Porgera in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Porgera in Papua New Guinea. 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 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 142.6999° East, latitude -5.9522° South, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000e6wj. Id of event: us1000e6wj. The temblor was picked up at 09:58:07 / 9:58 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/05/18 / 2018-05-16 23:58:07 / May 16, 2018 @ 11:58 pm.

Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 27 km (17 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tari.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 77 km SW of Porgera, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.6999° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.9522° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	77km 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	2018-05-16 23:58:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-05-17 00:15:33	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	271	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	6.061	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.84 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	125	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	us1000e6wj	Id of event.
Event Code	1000e6wj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000e6wj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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