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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Lae in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on October 20, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -5.6054S, 147.271WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 127 km NNE of Lae, Papua New Guinea (79 miles). The temblor was reported at 12:22:00 / 12:22 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000auft. Id of event: us1000auft. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/10/17 / 2017-10-20 02:22:00 / October 20, 2017 @ 2:22 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 189.15 km (118 miles). Exact location of event, depth 189.15 km, 147.271° East, -5.6054° South. A tsunami warning has been issued near Lae in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days sixty-seven 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: 127 km NNE of Lae, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.271° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.6054° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 189.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 127km NNE of Lae, 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 2017-10-20 02:22:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-20 02:40:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 432 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 3.539 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 16 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 us1000auft Id of event.
Event Code 1000auft An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000auft, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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