Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 27 km NNE of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Kandrian in Papua New Guinea. Global time and date of event 18/04/24 / 2024-04-18 12:09:57 / April 18, 2024 @ 12:09 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 63.101 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 149.6211 East, latitude -5.9717 South, depth = 63.101 km. The temblor was reported at 12:09:57 / 12:09 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000mtrv. Event ids that are associated: us6000mtrv.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kimbe. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 27 km NNE of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	149.6211° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.9717° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	63.101 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27 km NNE 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	2024-04-18 12:09:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-16 13:10:58	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	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.193	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	149	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	us6000mtrv	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mtrv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mtrv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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