Major earthquake, 7 mag has occurred near Taron in Papua New Guinea

A major earthquake with magnitude 7 (ml/mb) was reported 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Taron in Papua New Guinea on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude 153.4 East, latitude -4.3 South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: at00p5a92i. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt18067000, at00p5a92i. A tsunami warning has been issued near Taron in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/03/18 / 2018-03-08 17:39:54 / March 8, 2018 @ 5:39 pm. The 7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:39:54 / 3:39 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul, Kokopo. Epicenter of the earthquake was 126 km (78 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 137 km (85 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 7.0 to 7.9 may cause serious damage. Each year there are an estimated 15 major quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 44 km ENE of Taron, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	153.4° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.3° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44km ENE of Taron, 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	2018-03-08 17:39:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-08 17:49:22	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	754	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pt,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	36	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.130979	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	71.999994240001	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00p5a92i	Id of event.
Event Code	00p5a92i	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt18067000,at00p5a92i,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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