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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 119 km SW of Porgera, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.3007S, 142.5076WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 119 kilometers (74 miles) from Porgera in Papua New Guinea on Saturday. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:24:20 / 7:24 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/07/18 / 2018-07-13 21:24:20 / July 13, 2018 @ 9:24 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000g8kx. Id of event: us2000g8kx. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.5076 East, latitude -6.3007 South, depth = 10 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 65 km (40 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tari (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-one 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.

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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: 119 km SW of Porgera, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.5076° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.3007° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 119km 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 2018-07-13 21:24:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-27 04:57:45 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 259 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 5.545 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 196 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 us2000g8kx Id of event.
Event Code 2000g8kx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000g8kx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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