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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 111 km SSE of Panguna, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -7.2921S, 155.7504WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 111 km SSE of Panguna, Papua New Guinea (69 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/03/17 / 2017-03-04 03:18:41 / March 4, 2017 @ 3:18 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 155.7504 East, latitude -7.2921 South, depth = 35.07 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35.07 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us100086xu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100086xu. The temblor was picked up at 13:18:41 / 1:18 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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 four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 111 km SSE of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.7504° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.2921° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 111km 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 03:18:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-04 06:15:14 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 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 15.703 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us100086xu Id of event.
Event Code 100086xu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100086xu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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