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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Panguna in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on December 1, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.9845S, 155.5527WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has been issued near Panguna in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 01/12/15 / 2015-12-01 20:20:12 / December 1, 2015 @ 8:20 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 54.59 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us100042jf. Ids that are associated to the event: us100042jf. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:20:12 / 7:20 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 155.5527 East, latitude -6.9845 South, depth = 54.59 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arawa. Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Event epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 74 km S of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.5527° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.9845° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km 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 2015-12-01 20:20:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-01 22:28:55 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 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 4.367 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us100042jf Id of event.
Event Code 100042jf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100042jf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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