Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Rabaul in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.11 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 25/07/16 / 2016-07-25 19:49:59 / July 25, 2016 @ 7:49 pm UTC/GMT. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:49:59 / 5:49 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20006hkg. Event ids that are associated: us20006hkg. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 151.4558 East, latitude -3.8028 South, depth = 6.11 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Rabaul in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	151.4558° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-3.8028° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	90km WNW 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	2016-07-25 19:49:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-25 20:13:23	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	416	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	0.804	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	67	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	us20006hkg	Id of event.
Event Code	20006hkg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20006hkg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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