Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Kandrian in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Kandrian in Papua New Guinea. Exact location, longitude 149.7006° East, latitude -6.159° South, depth = 69.07 km. The temblor was reported at 17:21:40 / 5:21 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000cddi. Event ids that are associated: us6000cddi. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 69.07 km (43 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/10/20 / 2020-10-26 17:21:40 / October 26, 2020 @ 5:21 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kimbe. Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km ENE of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	149.7006° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.159° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	69.07 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 km ENE of Kandrian, 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	2020-10-26 17:21:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-11-03 22:00:08	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	271	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	2.957	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	90	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	us6000cddi	Id of event.
Event Code	6000cddi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000cddi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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