Strong earthquake, 6.3 mag has occurred near Lorengau in Papua New Guinea

A earthquake magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 128 kilometers (80 miles) from Lorengau in Papua New Guinea. The 6.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:38:44 / 5:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 147.9789 East, latitude -2.9437 South, depth = 6.57 km. Global time and date of event 25/07/16 / 2016-07-25 19:38:44 / July 25, 2016 @ 7:38 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Lorengau in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.57 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pt16207053, at00oavykn, us20006hkb. Unique identifier: us20006hkb.

Event epicenter was 128 km (80 miles) from Lorengau (c. 5 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lorengau.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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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 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: 128 km SE of Lorengau, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	147.9789° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-2.9437° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.57 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	128km SE of Lorengau, 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 19:38:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-25 20:10:16	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	4.33	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	611	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	,pt,at,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	1.083	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	45	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us20006hkb	Id of event.
Event Code	20006hkb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt16207053,at00oavykn,us20006hkb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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