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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Porgera in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.2193S, 142.598WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 106 kilometers (66 miles) from Porgera in Papua New Guinea on Monday. Exact location of event, longitude 142.598 East, latitude -6.2193 South, depth = 35 km. The temblor was picked up at 01:13:59 / 1:13 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/06/19 / 2019-06-09 15:13:59 / June 9, 2019 @ 3:13 pm. 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 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us600040rh. Ids that are associated to the event: us600040rh.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tari. Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 51 km (32 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 106 km SW of Porgera, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.598° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.2193° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 106km 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 2019-06-09 15:13:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-16 14:24:50 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 246 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 4.136 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us600040rh Id of event.
Event Code 600040rh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600040rh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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