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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Porgera in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.0159S, 142.5078WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 97 kilometers (60 miles) from Porgera in Papua New Guinea. Global time and date of event 01/04/20 / 2020-04-01 14:39:26 / April 1, 2020 @ 2:39 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us70008ki1. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008ki1. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.5078 East, latitude -6.0159 South, depth = 37.46 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 37.46 km (23 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:39:26 / 12:39 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tari (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 49 km (30 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

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 eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 97 km SW of Porgera, Papua New Guinea. This information 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 142.5078° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.0159° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 97km 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 2020-04-01 14:39:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-02 05:27:00 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 5.708 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us70008ki1 Id of event.
Event Code 70008ki1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008ki1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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