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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 113 km SSE of Taron, Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on December 23, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -5.4648S, 153.2911WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 113 km SSE of Taron, Papua New Guinea (70 miles). Global time and date of event 23/12/16 / 2016-12-23 14:28:31 / December 23, 2016 @ 2:28 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Taron in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10007m9k. Unique identifier: us10007m9k. The temblor was picked up at 00:28:31 / 12:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 153.2911 East, latitude -5.4648 South, depth = 23.44 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 23.44 km (15 miles).

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

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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: 113 km SSE of Taron, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 153.2911° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.4648° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 113km SSE 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 2016-12-23 14:28:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-23 14:44:39 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 1.692 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us10007m9k Id of event.
Event Code 10007m9k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007m9k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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