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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag was detected near Angoram in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -4.6631S, 144.068WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Angoram in Papua New Guinea. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:02:08 / 11:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 80.81 km, 144.068° East, -4.6631° South. A tsunami warning has been issued near Angoram in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000cjxn. Event ids that are associated: us2000cjxn. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/01/18 / 2018-01-16 13:02:08 / January 16, 2018 @ 1:02 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 80.81 km (50 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 99 km (62 miles) from Wabag (c. 4 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wabag (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 66 km S of Angoram, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.068° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.6631° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 80.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km S of Angoram, 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 2018-01-16 13:02:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-16 13:27:23 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 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 449 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 4.196 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 us2000cjxn Id of event.
Event Code 2000cjxn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cjxn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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