Strong earthquake 6.4 mag, 38 km SSE of Taron, Papua New Guinea

A earthquake magnitude 6.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Taron in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was detected at 13:36:09 / 1:36 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Taron in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 13/07/17 / 2017-07-13 03:36:09 / July 13, 2017 @ 3:36 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us20009vvi. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00ot0fcb, us20009vvi, pt17194000. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 46.95 km (29 miles). Exact location of event, depth 46.95 km, 153.1594° East, -4.7884° South.

Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 111 km (69 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 128 km (79 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 38 km SSE of Taron, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	153.1594° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.7884° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	46.95 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38km 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	2017-07-13 03:36:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-07-13 03:56:51	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	7.4	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	5.6	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	633	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	,at,us,pt,	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	6.393	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.77 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	us20009vvi	Id of event.
Event Code	20009vvi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00ot0fcb,us20009vvi,pt17194000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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