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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 199 km N of Namatanai, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -1.8688S, 152.5294WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 199 km N of Namatanai, Papua New Guinea (124 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Namatanai in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.24 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 152.5294° East, latitude -1.8688° South, depth = 9.24 km. Id of earthquake: us1000d2fm. Event ids that are associated: us1000d2fm. The temblor was picked up at 05:03:54 / 5:03 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/03/18 / 2018-03-09 19:03:54 / March 9, 2018 @ 7:03 pm.

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 199 km N of Namatanai, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.5294° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.8688° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 199km N of Namatanai, 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 2018-03-09 19:03:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-09 19:22:18 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 416 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 2.335 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us1000d2fm Id of event.
Event Code 1000d2fm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d2fm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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