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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near New Guinea, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.0885S, 143.0619WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported New Guinea, Papua New Guinea kilometers (0 miles) from New Guinea, Papua New Guinea on Monday. The temblor was detected at 13:49:41 / 1:49 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000eyp1. Unique identifier: us1000eyp1. Exact location of event, longitude 143.0619 East, latitude -6.0885 South, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 18/06/18 / 2018-06-18 13:49:41 / June 18, 2018 @ 1:49 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). 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 Mendi, Tari.

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 three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: New Guinea, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.0619° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.0885° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place New Guinea, 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 2018-06-18 13:49:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-25 19:40:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 9.259 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us1000eyp1 Id of event.
Event Code 1000eyp1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000eyp1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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