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

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 37 km N of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea (23 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10007dbq. Unique identifier: us10007dbq. Exact location of earthquake, 147.8486° East, -6.2681° South, depth 51.92 km. The temblor was detected at 23:53:59 / 11:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/11/16 / 2016-11-13 13:53:59 / November 13, 2016 @ 1:53 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 51.92 km (32 miles).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 37 km N of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	147.8486° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.2681° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	51.92 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37km N of Finschhafen, 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	2016-11-13 13:53:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-04 21:56:21	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	3.19	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	68	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	us10007dbq	Id of event.
Event Code	10007dbq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007dbq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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