Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Mendi in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 108 kilometers (67 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea. Unique identifier: us70006q52. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006q52. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 142.6801° East, -6.3301° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 22:39:56 / 10:39 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/12/19 / 2019-12-23 12:39:56 / December 23, 2019 @ 12:39 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tari. Epicenter of the event was 55 km (34 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty 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. 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: 108 km W of Mendi, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.6801° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.3301° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	108km W of Mendi, 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	2019-12-23 12:39:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-12-23 13:08:13	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	369	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	5.387	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	50	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	us70006q52	Id of event.
Event Code	70006q52	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006q52,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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