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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Panguna in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on December 17, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.5579S, 154.4451WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 118 km WSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea (73 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/12/16 / 2016-12-17 18:21:04 / December 17, 2016 @ 6:21 pm. Exact location, longitude 154.4451° East, latitude -6.5579° South, depth = 88.55 km. Unique identifier: us2000820d. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000820d. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 88.55 km (55 miles). The temblor was picked up at 04:21:04 / 4:21 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Panguna in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 118 km WSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 154.4451° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.5579° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 88.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 118km WSW of Panguna, 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 18:21:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-17 20:30:16 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 3.269 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us2000820d Id of event.
Event Code 2000820d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000820d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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