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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Taron in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on December 17, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -5.2333S, 153.7681WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 117 km SE of Taron, Papua New Guinea (73 miles). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:40:46 / 11:40 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 71.55 km (44 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Taron in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 153.7681 East, latitude -5.2333 South, depth = 71.55 km. Id of earthquake: us200081xr. Event ids that are associated: us200081xr. Global time and date of event 17/12/16 / 2016-12-17 13:40:46 / December 17, 2016 @ 1:40 pm UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 117 km SE of Taron, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 153.7681° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.2333° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 71.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 117km SE 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 13:40:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-17 13:57:03 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 432 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 1.904 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us200081xr Id of event.
Event Code 200081xr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200081xr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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