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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag was detected near Porgera in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on February 26, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.0553S, 142.7007WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) strikes 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Porgera in Papua New Guinea on Tuesday. Unique identifier: us2000d8bx. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000d8bx. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/02/18 / 2018-02-26 18:28:04 / February 26, 2018 @ 6:28 pm. Exact location, longitude 142.7007° East, latitude -6.0553° South, depth = 31.03 km. The temblor was detected at 04:28:04 / 4:28 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 31.03 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Porgera in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). The epicenter was 106 km (66 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mendi, 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 fourty-two, in the last 10 days fourty-six, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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: 85 km SW 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 142.7007° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.0553° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85km SW 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 2018-02-26 18:28:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-26 18:47:21 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 4.39 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 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 5.531 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 29 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 us2000d8bx Id of event.
Event Code 2000d8bx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d8bx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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