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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Vanimo in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on February 13, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -2.8377S, 141.8056WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Vanimo in Papua New Guinea on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Vanimo in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 141.8056 East, latitude -2.8377 South, depth = 37.44 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 37.44 km (23 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/02/18 / 2018-02-13 18:48:55 / February 13, 2018 @ 6:48 pm. The temblor was picked up at 04:48:55 / 4:48 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000d1kj. Unique identifier: us2000d1kj.

Event epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) from Vanimo (c. 11 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Vanimo (c. 9 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Aitape (c. 5 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aitape, Vanimo, Vanimo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

Every 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 four and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 58 km ESE of Vanimo, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.8056° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.8377° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km ESE of Vanimo, 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 2018-02-13 18:48:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-13 19:04:15 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 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 385 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 5.611 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000d1kj Id of event.
Event Code 2000d1kj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d1kj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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