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Strong earthquake, 6 mag was detected near Porgera in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on February 28, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.1716S, 142.4749WA earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 111 kilometers (69 miles) from Porgera in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of earthquake, 142.4749° East, -6.1716° South, depth 10 km. Event id: us2000d90d. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d90d. The 6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:45:44 / 12:45 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Porgera in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/02/18 / 2018-02-28 02:45:44 / February 28, 2018 @ 2:45 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tari. Epicenter of the event was 59 km (37 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days sixty-eight, in the past 30 days sixty-eight and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 111 km SW of Porgera, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.4749° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.1716° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 111km 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 2018-02-28 02:45:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-28 03:06:14 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 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 7.03 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 554 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 5.644 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 19 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 us2000d90d Id of event.
Event Code 2000d90d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d90d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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