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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag has occurred near Taron in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on December 17, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -4.4294S, 153.5415WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was reported 56 km E of Taron, Papua New Guinea (35 miles) on Saturday. Exact location of event, depth 89.23 km, 153.5415° East, -4.4294° South. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:22:39 / 9:22 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 17/12/16 / 2016-12-17 11:22:39 / December 17, 2016 @ 11:22 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 89.23 km (55 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Taron in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200081vz. Id of event: us200081vz.

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 three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 56 km E of Taron, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 153.5415° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.4294° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 89.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km 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 11:22:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-17 11:47:03 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 3.73 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 465 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 1.394 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us200081vz Id of event.
Event Code 200081vz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200081vz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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