Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Panguna in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 136 km SSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea (85 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 154.9454 East, latitude -7.4296 South, depth = 43.18 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/07/16 / 2016-07-21 05:45:51 / July 21, 2016 @ 5:45 am. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:45:51 / 3:45 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006gc3. Id of event: us20006gc3. A tsunami warning has been issued near Panguna in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 43.18 km (27 miles).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 136 km SSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	154.9454° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-7.4296° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	43.18 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	136km SSW 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	2016-07-21 05:45:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-21 06:07:24	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	432	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	4.243	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.04 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	55	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	us20006gc3	Id of event.
Event Code	20006gc3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20006gc3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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