Major earthquake: M7.9 quake has struck near Taron in Papua New Guinea

A major earthquake with magnitude 7.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Taron in Papua New Guinea. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 103.19 km (64 miles). Event id: us200081v8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt16352050, us200081v8, at00oibstb. The 7.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:51:12 / 8:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/12/16 / 2016-12-17 10:51:12 / December 17, 2016 @ 10:51 am. Exact location, longitude 153.4495° East, latitude -4.5091° South, depth = 103.19 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Taron in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 133 km (82 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 146 km (91 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop).

There are an estimated 15 major quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 7.0 to 7.9 may cause serious damage. 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 seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 46 km E of Taron, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	7.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	153.4495° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.5091° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	103.19 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46km E of Taron, 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	2016-12-17 10:51:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-17 11:21:01	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	8.18	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	yellow	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	960	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,us,at,	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	1.32	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	17	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us200081v8	Id of event.
Event Code	200081v8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt16352050,us200081v8,at00oibstb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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