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Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag has occurred near Panguna in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on March 4, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -7.3527S, 155.7048WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 117 km SSE of Panguna, Papua New Guinea (73 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/03/17 / 2017-03-04 02:58:24 / March 4, 2017 @ 2:58 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us100086x7. Unique identifier: us100086x7. The temblor was picked up at 12:58:24 / 12:58 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 53.72 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 155.7048° East, -7.3527° South, depth 53.72 km.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 117 km SSE of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.7048° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.3527° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 117km SSE 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 2017-03-04 02:58:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-04 03:17:43 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 0 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 536 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 4.681 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 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 us100086x7 Id of event.
Event Code 100086x7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100086x7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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