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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Madang in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.2955S, 146.4303WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Madang in Papua New Guinea on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/11/18 / 2018-11-27 15:01:34 / November 27, 2018 @ 3:01 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 146.4303 East, latitude -5.2955 South, depth = 137 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 137 km (85 miles). The temblor was detected at 01:01:34 / 1:01 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000hyeg. Event ids that are associated: us1000hyeg.

Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Madang (c. 27 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Madang (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 70 km E of Madang, 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 146.4303° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.2955° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 137 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km E of Madang, 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 2018-11-27 15:01:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-04 20:07:15 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 4.146 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 us1000hyeg Id of event.
Event Code 1000hyeg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hyeg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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