Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag has occurred near Madang in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) strikes 110 kilometers (68 miles) from Madang in Papua New Guinea on Monday. Unique identifier: us2000cjkg. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000cjkg. Exact location of earthquake, 144.8987° East, -4.7989° South, depth 65.18 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/01/18 / 2018-01-14 21:54:36 / January 14, 2018 @ 9:54 pm UTC/GMT. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:54:36 / 7:54 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 65.18 km (41 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Madang in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 110 km (68 miles) from Madang (c. 27 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Madang (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 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. 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: 110 km WNW of Madang, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	144.8987° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.7989° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	65.18 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	110km WNW of Madang, 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	2018-01-14 21:54:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-14 22:13:14	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.23	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	466	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	3.682	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	23	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	us2000cjkg	Id of event.
Event Code	2000cjkg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000cjkg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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