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

Posted by admin on April 10, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -5.65S, 153.2439WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (mg/mb) was reported Friday, 132 kilometers (82 miles) from Taron in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was reported at 18:24:36 / 6:24 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 17.23 km (11 miles). Global time of event 10/04/15 / 2015-04-10 08:24:36 / April 10, 2015 @ 8:24 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Taron in Papua New Guinea, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 153.2439 East, latitude -5.65 South, depth 17.23 km, unique identifier, us200025k0.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 153.2439° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.65° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 132km S of Taron, 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 2015-04-10 08:24:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-04-10 08:42:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 1 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 1.805 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 101 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 us200025k0 Id of event.
Event Code 200025k0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200025k0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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