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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake strikes near Panguna in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on December 23, 2014 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.7346S, 155.1111WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (mg/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was reported at 08:19:51 / 8:19 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 32.97 km (20 miles). Global time of event 2014-12-23 09:19:51 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 155.1111 East, latitude -6.7346 South, depth 32.97 km.

Close countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.1111° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.7346° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km SW 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 2014-12-23 21:19:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2014-12-23 21:44:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 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 400 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 5.49 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 usc000t9ir Id of event.
Event Code c000t9ir An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS usc000t9ir A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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