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Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag was detected near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on December 30, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -5.481S, 150.8454WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) was reported 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Kimbe in Papua New Guinea on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 95.82 km (60 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 150.8454° East, -5.481° South, depth 95.82 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/12/17 / 2017-12-29 23:55:56 / December 29, 2017 @ 11:55 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us1000bxyn. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000bxyn. The temblor was detected at 09:55:56 / 9:55 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 78 km (49 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kimbe (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 78 km E of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 150.8454° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.481° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 95.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km E of Kimbe, 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 2017-12-29 23:55:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-30 00:18:31 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 4.12 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 500 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 4.869 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us1000bxyn Id of event.
Event Code 1000bxyn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bxyn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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