Moderate earthquake: M5 quake strikes near Rabaul in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (mg/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was reported at 13:56:14 / 1:56 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time of event 17/05/15 / 2015-05-17 03:56:14 / May 17, 2015 @ 3:56 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Rabaul in Papua New Guinea, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 152.1231 East, latitude -4.323 South, depth 10 km, unique identifier, us100029ws. Ids that are associated to the event, ,us100029ws,.

Close countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). The epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo, Rabaul.

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Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded in: 14 km SSW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	152.1231° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.323° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km SSW of Rabaul, 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	2015-05-17 03:56:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-05-17 04:19:03	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	385	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	0.137	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	56	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	us100029ws	Id of event.
Event Code	100029ws	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100029ws,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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