Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Porgera in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 103 kilometers (64 miles) from Porgera in Papua New Guinea on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 06/12/18 / 2018-12-06 20:31:44 / December 6, 2018 @ 8:31 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 06:31:44 / 6:31 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.89 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.5471 East, latitude -6.1306 South, depth = 14.89 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000i3qe. Unique identifier: us1000i3qe.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tari (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 103 km SW of Porgera, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.5471° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.1306° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.89 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	103km 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	2018-12-06 20:31:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-12-25 18:17:06	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	340	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	4.034	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	96	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	us1000i3qe	Id of event.
Event Code	1000i3qe	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000i3qe,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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