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


Earthquake location -5.6451S, 146.6486WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 106 km ESE of Madang, Papua New Guinea (66 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mrii. Id of event: us7000mrii. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 113.078 km (70 miles). The temblor was detected at 10:57:23 / 10:57 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 146.6486 East, latitude -5.6451 South, depth = 113.078 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/06/24 / 2024-06-03 10:57:23 / June 3, 2024 @ 10:57 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each 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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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 106 km ESE of Madang, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.6486° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.6451° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 113.078 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 106 km ESE of Madang, 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 2024-06-03 10:57:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-02 12:53:06 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.649 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us7000mrii Id of event.
Event Code 7000mrii An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mrii, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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