Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Kiunga in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 99 kilometers (62 miles) from Kiunga in Papua New Guinea. Id of earthquake: us1000d4vp. Event ids that are associated: us1000d4vp. The temblor was reported at 04:58:28 / 4:58 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/03/18 / 2018-03-15 18:58:28 / March 15, 2018 @ 6:58 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 142.1881 East, latitude -6.1367 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kiunga in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kiunga, Tari (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 99 km (62 miles) from Kiunga (c. 11 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 99 km E of Kiunga, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.1881° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.1367° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	99km E of Kiunga, 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	2018-03-15 18:58:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-15 19:14:30	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	385	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	5.899	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.44 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	72	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	us1000d4vp	Id of event.
Event Code	1000d4vp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000d4vp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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