Strong earthquake, 6.7 mag was detected near Namatanai in Papua New Guinea

A earthquake with magnitude 6.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Namatanai in Papua New Guinea. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 520 km (323 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 152.7 East, latitude -3.6 South, depth = 520 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00ocr7jb. Id of event: at00ocr7jb. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/08/16 / 2016-08-31 03:12:29 / August 31, 2016 @ 3:12 am. The temblor was reported at 13:12:29 / 1:12 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Namatanai in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo, Rabaul (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. 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 eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 30 km ENE of Namatanai, Papua New Guinea.

Kokopo Namatanai Papua New Guinea Rabaul

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	152.7° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-3.6° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	520 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30km ENE of Namatanai, 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	2016-08-31 03:12:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-31 03:22:43	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	691	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	66	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.73 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	46.799996256	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00ocr7jb	Id of event.
Event Code	00ocr7jb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00ocr7jb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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