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Strong earthquake, 6 mag strikes near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.611S, 151.4219WA earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 141 km E of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea (88 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 67.78 km (42 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 151.4219° East, -5.611° South, depth 67.78 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/03/18 / 2018-03-24 11:23:35 / March 24, 2018 @ 11:23 am. The temblor was reported at 21:23:35 / 9:23 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00p63ebb, us1000d8k9, pt18083000. Id of event: us1000d8k9. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 141 km E of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 151.4219° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.611° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 67.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 141km E of Kimbe, 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 2018-03-24 11:23:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-24 11:44:27 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 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.61 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 ,at,us,pt, 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 5.378 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 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 us1000d8k9 Id of event.
Event Code 1000d8k9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00p63ebb,us1000d8k9,pt18083000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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