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

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea on Wednesday. Id of earthquake: us1000490j. Event ids that are associated: us1000490j. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:08:49 / 8:08 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/12/15 / 2015-12-23 10:08:49 / December 23, 2015 @ 10:08 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Panguna in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 155.0285° East, latitude -6.815° South, depth = 35 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arawa (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 74 km SW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.

Arawa Panguna Papua New Guinea

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	155.0285° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.815° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	74km 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	2015-12-23 10:08:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-23 10:34:19	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	3.863	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	64	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	us1000490j	Id of event.
Event Code	1000490j	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000490j,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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