Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 102 kilometers (63 miles) from Kimbe in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of earthquake, 150.4587° East, -4.6798° South, depth 488.3 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/11/16 / 2016-11-09 14:51:25 / November 9, 2016 @ 2:51 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100078sm. Id of event: us100078sm. The epicenter was at a depth of 488.3 km (303 miles). The temblor was detected at 00:51:25 / 12:51 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kimbe (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 102 km NNE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	150.4587° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.6798° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	488.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	102km NNE of Kimbe, 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	2016-11-09 14:51:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-01 13:55:35	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	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	1.767	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	51	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	us100078sm	Id of event.
Event Code	100078sm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100078sm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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