Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Panguna in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 257.709 km, 155.4708° East, -6.9769° South. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:50:42 / 11:50 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 257.709 km (160 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/10/24 / 2024-10-24 23:50:42 / October 24, 2024 @ 11:50 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nn1k. Unique identifier: us7000nn1k.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 73 km S of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	155.4708° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.9769° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	257.709 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	73 km S of Panguna, 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	2024-10-24 23:50:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-14 03:14:37	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	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.3	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.77 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	228	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	us7000nn1k	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nn1k	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nn1k,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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