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Strong earthquake, 6 mag strikes near Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.14S, 147.6011WA earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea. The 6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:50:00 / 12:50 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/12/17 / 2017-12-01 02:50:00 / December 1, 2017 @ 2:50 am. Exact location, longitude 147.6011° East, latitude -6.14° South, depth = 52.71 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bjph. Id of event: us1000bjph. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.71 km (33 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 94 km (58 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lae.

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 two and in the last 365 days sixty 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 59 km NNW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.6011° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.14° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km NNW of Finschhafen, 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 2017-12-01 02:50:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-01 03:12:34 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 4.27 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 554 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 3.273 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 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 mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000bjph Id of event.
Event Code 1000bjph An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bjph, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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