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

Posted by admin on February 25, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -5.7603S, 142.2443WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) strikes 110 kilometers (68 miles) from Porgera in Papua New Guinea on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 04:11:34 / 4:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 142.2443° East, latitude -5.7603° South, depth = 38.97 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/02/18 / 2018-02-25 18:11:34 / February 25, 2018 @ 6:11 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 38.97 km (24 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Porgera in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000d7r4. Event ids that are associated: us2000d7r4.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tari (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 110 km WSW of Porgera, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.2443° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.7603° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 110km WSW of Porgera, 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 2018-02-25 18:11:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-25 18:31:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.34 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 465 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 6.303 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us2000d7r4 Id of event.
Event Code 2000d7r4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d7r4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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